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The internet is built on institutional trust. You can’t have a properly functioning network when a sizable part is just not giving a shit about its users abusin
by toxik 5y ago
The internet is built on institutional trust. You can’t have a properly functioning network when a sizable part is just not giving a shit about its users abusing your users.
It very much echoes the problems of intellectual property theft in China.
- crumbshot 5y agoThis supposed 'intellectual property theft' is mostly just reverse engineering of technology. It's not really a problem anyway. If some capitalists in the US and Europe don't get to skim off a slice of profit from another country's manufacturing output, then so what?
- wyager 5y ago> The internet is built on institutional trust. No it’s not. What is this even supposed to mean?
- posguy 5y agoAutonomous system (AS) operators should not act in bad faith towards other AS networks they peer with. BGP hijacking is an example of abuse of this institutional trust, same for DNS hijacking. If this trust is repeatedly broken, peering networks may be forced to depeer the AS as a result, like what happened to McColo when they were depeered.