Maybe have a VM for this? ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Phillip Hallam-Baker <ph...@hallambaker.com> Date: Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [Cryptography] Most transactions on crypto exchanges are bogus To: John Levine <jo...@iecc.com> Cc: Cryptography Mailing List <cryptogra...@metzdowd.com>
I am so over these cryptobros with their criminal currencies, Ponzi schemes and Web3 branding. So I am announcing Web4 which is Web3 minus all the fraud and grift, minus the crypto-bro bullies and the coinsplainers telling everyone that only 'a stupid person' would think Tether is a naked Ponzi scheme. I only had half an hour to write a browser but it does run and it does subtract all the Web3 features that are stupid or criminal or both: hallambaker/PhillsHypotheticalBrowser: An experimental browser for testing proposed security and usability extensions. (github.com) Seriously folk, it is a real browser and I intend to use it as a testbed for a lot of the security and other features that I think should be in the Web but the current gatekeepers oppose. The whole notion of 'Decentralized Web' coming from a change in technology is fundamentally bogus. Web/1.0 was decentralized, the technology has always been decentralized. The problem we see today is that the network effect is so powerful that it has a tendency to centralize itself again. First around Netscape, then around Microsoft, then Google and today it is Facebook. The people behind 'Web3' are a corrupt cartel of crypto-whales who make their money selling a fraudulent Ponzi scheme. They don't want to decentralize the Web, they are a mafia cartel wanting to install themselves as the new monarchs in place of King Zuck. To really decentralize the Web, we have to understand where the current control points are. Today those are the DNS, the browser and (in the Western world) Facebook. Decentralization is not a technical fix. You don't get decentralization by throwing blockchain at a problem. China's 'New Internet' uses Blockchain DNS to give Xi a master censorship control. I will be adding Mesh technologies to PHB of course but I also want to add in capabilities like DNSSEC and other DNS security schemes. My view on the best way forward might not be the same as yours but 80% of the difficulty in implementing any extension in the browser is to understand where the extension point is that we need to override. _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptogra...@metzdowd.com https://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/CACXcFmk9uy7-VZ1FyySTz1Ft6%2BAJGRu8X4UNaR9iiHoq_Ro6hA%40mail.gmail.com.
