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From the comment section: >Trust will disrupt Openness There are a couple of factors that will disrupt the Web architecture. The Web has trained us to build

From the comment section: >Trust will disrupt Openness There are a couple of factors that will disrupt the Web architecture. The Web has trained us to build dumb clients and centralize anything of value on the server, at a huge cost and never enough trust. We can safely predict today that light-weight protocols, mediated by the mobile OS (and its Platform) will directly challenge the Web architecture, precisely because we can leverage the platform trust model. That evolution is extremely profound. For instance, apps running on your device can securely and privately share information without requiring a complex temporal integration involving a 3rd party service (such as Google AdSense). The information is produced and consumed on the device or the device of a related end-user. What happens on your device can now stay on your device. Just to be clear, and to show how disruptive that architecture is, the primary key of your private data becomes your phone, not your identity. Merchants no longer need to identify you. They can’t care less about YOU, they just care to know some information about you. The problem with the Web Architecture was that the only way to do that was to associate PII to a primary key on a server and hence merchants needed to identify you to track your every move (and they shamelessly did). The second factor is just as profound: the very open nature of the Web is driving scale over scope. The Web has successfully nurtured the largest Catalog, the largest Search engine, the largest Auction site, the largest Social Network, but I see this as a negative side effect of the Web architecture because it limits the scope of what people can do. In other words, the scope of what Amazon, Google or Facebook offer is limited by the scale (and hence the revenue) they can achieve. I actually argue that a trust-based neutral Platform will support a more vibrant and diverse ecosystem than a truly open model because in essence a Web business couples the leve of trust it can achieve with the functionality it can deliver. The Platform decouples the trust from the functionality and it enables much smaller actors to deliver a lot more scenarios while relying on the trust establish by the Platform. I would be surprised if the Web can resist being disrupted by the Platform. Actually, I think it already is.

valley_guy_12 14y ago
Unfortunately, you can't really trust a device, since there is always a chance that it could be rooted. See the long history of rooted game consoles. The best you can do is sort-of trust the device. But that's not much better than not trusting the device in terms of the kind of architectures and products you can build.
- illuminate 14y ago
  "you can't really trust a device, since there is always a chance that it could be rooted. See the long history of rooted game consoles" How many get rooted without the user's intervention?
  - randomdata 14y ago
    I do not have an answer to your question, but in my mind the targeted attack is more concerning than a random drive-by that hits everyone. That means just one instance is too many. As another example: In the earlier days of iOS, you could root it just by visiting a website. Who knows how many fell pray and have malicious code running on their devices today? With a targeted attack, you don't even get the benefit of security researchers all scouring over the code like you would with something more widespread, thus there really is no way to even keep track of what might be out there.

valley_guy_12 14y ago

Unfortunately, you can't really trust a device, since there is always a chance that it could be rooted. See the long history of rooted game consoles. The best you can do is sort-of trust the device. But that's not much better than not trusting the device in terms of the kind of architectures and products you can build.

illuminate 14y ago
"you can't really trust a device, since there is always a chance that it could be rooted. See the long history of rooted game consoles" How many get rooted without the user's intervention?
- randomdata 14y ago
  I do not have an answer to your question, but in my mind the targeted attack is more concerning than a random drive-by that hits everyone. That means just one instance is too many. As another example: In the earlier days of iOS, you could root it just by visiting a website. Who knows how many fell pray and have malicious code running on their devices today? With a targeted attack, you don't even get the benefit of security researchers all scouring over the code like you would with something more widespread, thus there really is no way to even keep track of what might be out there.