> Urbit is an attempt to fix all of the major issues of networked computing in one single system. > > Security, spam, maintenance, up-time, software complexity

> Urbit is an attempt to fix all of the major issues of networked computing in one single system. > > Security, spam, maintenance, up-time, software complexity, identity, network governance, etc. And yet, from an article from just a year ago [1]: "Nothing in Urbit is encrypted at rest. No, seriously, all the chat logs, events, everything… is dumped into a journal on disk7 in cleartext form. In other words, when hosting urbit at any 3rd party, you better be the only one with access to the underlying OS (and have it fully encrypted), lest you want your entire history worth of data readable by the company running the instance for you. Or anyone with access to the system." And: " if you want to stay up to date, you need to configure OTA. So you will be receiving updates to your Urbit instance from one of your neighbors. Sounds great, since this is 2021, and surely the updates are signed. Well, no. They are not." [1] https://wejn.org/2021/02/urbit-good-bad-insane/ https://wejn.org/2021/02/urbit-good-bad-insane/