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As a lawyer, I don't think Granick appreciates just how the Internet has become a realm of haves and have-nots. She talks about right to tinker and end-to-end
by Decade 11y ago
As a lawyer, I don't think Granick appreciates just how the Internet has become a realm of haves and have-nots.
She talks about right to tinker and end-to-end communications. Back in the 90s, I played with HTTP and SMTP services on my Mac. It was just install a program and go. No root permissions for special ports. No configuring port forwarding, because even on dial-up I had a global IP address. And HTTP was a simple text protocol. Network protocols these days are so complex, I don't know how kids learn how they work.
One essential component is IPv6. I perceived that centralized control would be a problem as soon as I heard about how NAT works, but short-term costs have kept IPv6 inaccessible. This is an immense frustration.
- parasubvert 11y agoI grew up through the 80s and 90s too and I'm not sure why you're that concerned: - we mainly all still have global IP access on our broadband - HTTP and SMTP are still fundamentally text even if you need TLS (just need the key to be able to read it) - HTTP/2 has clear semantics that can make it look like text with a simple script - NAT is annoying and yet essential ; it will be in an IPv6 world too. the dream of everything having a public IPv6 address was always unlikely precisely because people want privacy for their devices, a (misplaced?) belief they're one step off the grid. I suspect the work we are seeing with cloud technology around automated dynamic provisioning of firewall & routing will make its way into consumer edge routers and ISPs some day when the right app is there. Tinkerers always find a way.