* Everything encrypted by default. Dan Bernstein has talked about a few such ideas in the past [1], and there's also the more recent MinimaLT [2]. * The abilit

* Everything encrypted by default. Dan Bernstein has talked about a few such ideas in the past [1], and there's also the more recent MinimaLT [2]. * The ability to be anonymous baked into the hardware infrastructure [3]. In the Internet's life, people have been more "anonymous" than not. Even in the Facebook age, many still communicate under pseudonyms on the Internet (thinking they are anonymous - but unfortunately the surveillance state and all the ad-tracking has made that wishful thinking) * Being a lot more censorship-resistant/decentralized. If the Internet was being redesigned, stuff like the Great Firewall of China shouldn't be made possible. The Internet has been such a democratizing force because people have been (for the most part) out of reach of the governments' might. I can only see a strengthening of that feature as a great thing. Yes, bad things will be done, too, but in balance, I think the free Internet has been proven to be an overwhelmingly net positive thing. * As others have said, much better support from the Internet stakeholders of modern secure standards. There has just been so much reluctance to change things for the better from major Internet stakeholders. That's why I'm a huge fan of Google's recent pushes for SHA2, HTTPS, etc (some would say "forceful" pushes, but I think that's unavoidable if we want them done within a few short years, instead of decades. Considering how large the Internet is today, they are bound to step on a few toes anyway). 1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNkz5PtoUrw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNkz5PtoUrw [2] - http://cr.yp.to/tcpip/minimalt-20131031.pdf http://cr.yp.to/tcpip/minimalt-20131031.pdf [3] - https://code.google.com/p/phantom/ https://code.google.com/p/phantom/