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DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The future of the Internet will be the focus of a major independent commission announced by officials Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.

The group will focus primarily on state censorship of the Internet and the issues of privacy and surveillance, the British newspaper the Guardian reported.

The commission was formed in the wake of disclosures by former U.S. National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden of massive spying efforts by the United States and Britain.

To be headed by Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, the commission will be comprised of 25 people chosen from the fields of politics, academics, and intelligence who will lead a series of public forums around the world.

"The rapid evolution of the net has been made possible by the open and flexible model by which it has evolved and been governed," Bildt said as the commission was announced. "But increasingly this is coming under attack. And this is happening as issues of net freedom, net security and net surveillance are increasingly debated. Net freedom is as fundamental as freedom of information and freedom of speech in our societies."

The two-year inquiry was set up Chatham House, a think tank of Britain's foreign office, and the Center for International Governance and Innovation (CIGI), which is funded in part by Canada.

In a joint statement, Chatham House and CIGI said the Internet was under threat by two sources: states attempting to exert tighter controls over Internet resources and extensive spying on messages and data sent through the Internet.

Chatham House director Robin Niblet said Internet governance "is set to become one of the most pressing global policy issues of our time."

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Hundreds of millions of Internet users in China were unexpectedly shown a way to overcome the communist countrys strict firewalls on Tuesday afternoon.

The users were simply attempting to access some of the countrys most popular websites. When they typed in the addresses, they were automatically redirected to the homepage of Dynamic Internet Technology (DIT), a U.S. company that sells anti-censorship technology that allows Chinese citizens to get around the so-called Great Firewall.

It is unclear whether the situation was the work of savvy hackers or the result of some kind of glitch in the Great Firewall.

Reuters reports that DIT has ties to the Falun Gong, a spiritual group banned in China that has been blamed for past hacking attacks.

I dont know who did this or where it came from, but what I want to point out is this reminds us once again that maintaining Internet security needs strengthened international cooperation. This again shows that China is a victim of hacking," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in a daily news briefing.

The state-run China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said the attack on the countrys Internet is under investigation, the official CCTV broadcaster wrote on its microblog on Wednesday.

However, sources familiar with the Chinese governments web management operations told Reutersthat a hacking attack was not to blame for the malfunction. They declined to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter.

They said the incident may have been the result of an engineering mistake made while making changes to the Great Firewall.

Our investigation shows very clearly that DNS exclusion happened at servers inside of China, said Xiao Qiang, an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley School of Information and an expert on Chinas Internet controls.

It all points to the Great Firewall, because thats where it can simultaneously influence DNS resolutions of all the different networks [in China]. But how that happened or why that happened were not sure. Its definitely not the Great Firewalls normal behavior.

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