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I hope this becomes a bigger trend, but if we're going to do this again, then I hope we do it right this time, and we make it as secure, as uncontrollable by go
by devx 13y ago
I hope this becomes a bigger trend, but if we're going to do this again, then I hope we do it right this time, and we make it as secure, as uncontrollable by governments, and as anonymous as possible (if you so make that decision on it).
The US government/NSA is ruining the old Internet, so I hope the new one will be very resistant to such attempts in the future. I would watch out especially for hardware-level backdoors for such an Internet.
If they can't spy on the network directly because it's P2P they will try to force either the OS vendors or the hardware vendors to implement backdoors and keyloggers for them. So at the very least the focus should be on open source operating systems with open source firmware (and possibly even open source hardware in the future). Such hardware should be given extreme preference for the mesh networks.
- pcunite 13y agoExcellent ...
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- olefoo 13y agoThe TOR project has been doing some work on deterministic builds to deal with exactly that issue. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/deterministic-builds-part-one-cyberwar-and-global-compromise https://blog.torproject.org/blog/deterministic-builds-part-o... I never thought that the whole "trusting trust" essay would become a practical reality and an everyday danger that must be mitigated. But welcome to the 21st century. No flying cars, but lots of dystopian cyber punks eager to get in your business.
- sliverstorm 13y agoThe problem is making it anonymous, uncontrollabe, P2P, flies in the face with other aspects like performance. Wireless links simply do not have the capacity to afford 10,000 people the speeds they are accustomed to today.