Re: [liberationtech] Isaacson: The internet is broken. Starting from scratch, here's how I'd fix it.

[Rich Kulawiec]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 11:31:20AM -0500, Thomas Delrue wrote:
> A great start to fixing the internet would be to stop using closed sites
> (of which LinkedIn is one). This would go a ways to bringing us back to
> a truly _distributed_ system, as the internet was intended to be,
> instead of an internet that is centralized in the hands of a few, very
> powerful corporations that hold us in a feudal lock.

Strongly seconded.  (Also, in this particular case: LinkedIn are notorious
spammers.)  Get off Facebook.  Get off Twitter.  Stop using Yahoo and
Google to host mailing lists.  (They're really terrible at it anyway.)
And so on.  It continues to amaze and appall me that even people on this
very list continue to use and support the operations that most want to
created walled gardens, a la AOL.   In case it's not obvious, and it really
should be: they are NOT your friends.  They are NOT your allies.  They
are NOT your supporters.  Their only value is profit, and if they can
maximize it by damaging you (or anyone else) they will not hesitate to
do so.

Like this.  Here's an example of one of those walled gardens and of
the damage it's doing (h/t to Lauren Weinstein):

50 million people in Myanmar can now get Facebook, and they're
spreading a trumpian ethnic cleansing movement

http://boingboing.net/2016/12/15/50-million-people-in-myanmar-c.html

50,000,000 people are now able to get Facebook, in other
words. The net has delivered a complex basket of social
changes, among them a revival of the country's ugly, murderous
history of ethnic cleansing, fueled by blood libels about
minority Muslims attacking the Buddhist majority. The new
incitements to violence are travelling hand in hand with news
about Trump and his promise to end Muslim migration into the
USA. Trump's election is being used to normalize and justify
ethnic cleansing movements in Myanmar ("We should do like
America and do it here too. No more Muslims!").  As was the
case in earlier eras of the internet's history, these new
users equate the net with the service they use the most (once
it may have been "Netscape" and "the net"; then "the web" and
"the net"; then "Google," etc) -- they use "Facebook" and
"internet" interchangeably. This is due to increase, as
Facebook has sold the carriers on its "Free Basics" system --
a net discrimination deal with the mobile carriers, who take
bribes from Facebook to exempt the company (but not its
rivals) from their data-caps.

---rsk
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Re: [liberationtech] Isaacson: The internet is broken. Starting from scratch, here's how I'd fix it.

[Bill Cox]

Conceptually, securing the Ineternet seems simple.  Strong security
requires a minimal attack surface.  That can never happen once a device
boots Linux, and runs a TLS stack over a network.  Such devices are rarely
secure.

Instead, every electronic device that processes sensitive data could have a
secure chip that costs under $1 for ensuring data security, and runs a
provably secure program.  When sensitive data is transmuted, encrypt it
directly to the public key of the destination secure device.  When
sensitive data is stored in a database, its privacy and integrity could be
ensured by these secure elements.

On a lighter note, if you just want to improve the Internet, tell all your
Web developer friends the following.  I promise it will result in a fewer
pissed-off users:

On the login screen to your web site, clearly state the password
requirements.  If you require an upper-case letter, lower-case letter, a
digit, and disallow spaces, state that on the login page.  This will reduce
the number of users who have to go through password recovery dramatically.

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Thomas Delrue  wrote:

> On 12/15/2016 11:14 AM, Steven Clift wrote:
> > By Walter Isaacson CEO at Aspen Institute
> >
> > My big idea is that we have to fix the internet. After forty years,
> > it has begun to corrode, both itself and us. It is still a marvelous
> > and miraculous invention, but now there are bugs in the foundation,
> > bats in the belfry, and trolls in the basement.
> >
> > See:
> > https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/internet-broken-
> starting-from-scratch-heres-how-id-fix-isaacson
>
> You're right, the internet is broken but...
> A great start to fixing the internet would be to stop using closed sites
> (of which LinkedIn is one). This would go a ways to bringing us back to
> a truly _distributed_ system, as the internet was intended to be,
> instead of an internet that is centralized in the hands of a few, very
> powerful corporations that hold us in a feudal lock.
>
> I'm not visiting that link... but instead, I suggest you read this first:
> http://en.collaboratory.de/w/Power_in_the_Age_of_the_Feudal_Internet
>
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Re: [liberationtech] Isaacson: The internet is broken. Starting from scratch, here's how I'd fix it.

[Thomas Delrue]

On 12/15/2016 11:14 AM, Steven Clift wrote:
> By Walter Isaacson CEO at Aspen Institute
> 
> My big idea is that we have to fix the internet. After forty years,
> it has begun to corrode, both itself and us. It is still a marvelous
> and miraculous invention, but now there are bugs in the foundation,
> bats in the belfry, and trolls in the basement.
> 
> See: 
> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/internet-broken-starting-from-scratch-heres-how-id-fix-isaacson

You're right, the internet is broken but...
A great start to fixing the internet would be to stop using closed sites
(of which LinkedIn is one). This would go a ways to bringing us back to
a truly _distributed_ system, as the internet was intended to be,
instead of an internet that is centralized in the hands of a few, very
powerful corporations that hold us in a feudal lock.

I'm not visiting that link... but instead, I suggest you read this first:
http://en.collaboratory.de/w/Power_in_the_Age_of_the_Feudal_Internet

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[liberationtech] Isaacson: The internet is broken. Starting from scratch, here's how I'd fix it.

[Steven Clift]

By Walter Isaacson
CEO at Aspen Institute

My big idea is that we have to fix the internet. After forty years, it
has begun to corrode, both itself and us. It is still a marvelous and
miraculous invention, but now there are bugs in the foundation, bats
in the belfry, and trolls in the basement.


See:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/internet-broken-starting-from-scratch-heres-how-id-fix-isaacson

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