More Digg Fallout

In the past it was fashionable to assert that the Internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it. In the current era we might say that "Web 2.0 treats censorship as inspiration and creates performance around it." Source: reddit and still find 16 copies of the key. Reddit users are probably just as passionate as Digg users, however, both sites are very different in how they operate and how stories get promoted.

Suppression of information when it becomes a celebrity cause is going to be impossible, but this is also good information for people moving forward. If you are doing something that people feel passionately about, and the damage is limited to a known number of people, then that is one thing. If suppression becomes a free speech how can you copyright a string of numbers or letters, or words, or anything else, then therein lies the problem. Shining the spotlight on an issue is sometimes not advisable.

The major labels, the people who make crypto keys and have DRM, or other ways of limiting content will face and have faced equally clever people who will break their stuff. It is that simple, it happens, has happened and will continue to happen. It looks like there is an additional threat now, in that attempting to suppress the information has also become an equally viable issue that companies need to also think about before figuring out how they want to go about getting the information deleted. If the companies had gone after doom9 the minute it was available, the hackers would have gone somewhere else, but the damage would have been limited. In conjunction with that, going after the cache pages in Google, Yahoo, Live and others would have also sufficed.

Adding how to manage the loss of critical or key information is equally important to your information security plan. How to contain the damage caused by trying to suppress information should be part of the companies disaster preparedness plan in the longer run. What we learn from RIAA, MPAA and AACS should give pause and advice to any CEO.

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