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Why is it impossible to trust someone? With sufficient transparency and checks/balances, wouldn't a partially centralized internet be acceptable? It's not an
by dm2 13y ago
Why is it impossible to trust someone?
With sufficient transparency and checks/balances, wouldn't a partially centralized internet be acceptable?
It's not an easy solution by any stretch of the imagination. If you can come up with a realistic solution then please let us know and we will help implement it.
Nothing is stopping you from hosting servers at your home or place of business (except maybe specific ISPs), isn't this how the internet was originally?
- forgottenpass 13y agoWhy is it impossible to trust someone? It's not impossible, its just very very unlikely in the context of current economic realities. Those that are currently begrudgingly trusted have time and time again proven themselves so untrustworthy that debates on Hacker News are about not about if, but how thoroughly they should be able to fuck the end user over and justify it with "because money". With sufficient transparency and checks/balances, wouldn't a partially centralized internet be acceptable? Finding an alternative seems like the path of less resistance. The people running the checks and balances have proven themselves only interested in the money of the untrustworthy above and their own intrusiveness.
- pdkl95 13y agoWhile trust is unlikely given the current state of politics, there is a better reason to not trust anything: the same reason you give up unnecessary privileges in a server jail. Limiting trust doesn't just protect against malicious or targeted attacks - it also helps with plain old bugs. In general, limiting access and trust to what is actually needed is a good engineering practice. Or, simply: we gave up on /etc/hosts.equiv (and .rhosts) a long time ago, and it would be a bad idea to repeat that kind of design mistake.