[HN Gopher] The Internet Is Broken: Idealistic Ideas for Buildin...
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The Internet Is Broken: Idealistic Ideas for Building a GNU Network
[pdf] (2014)
Author : todsacerdoti
Score : 57 points
Date : 2024-08-04 16:39 UTC (2 days ago)
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| nairboon wrote:
| Could use a 2014 in the title. One of the authors is the inventor
| of GNUnet.
| dang wrote:
| Year added above. Thanks!
| artistminute wrote:
| Did any projects come of this technical paper?
| jacinabox wrote:
| Yes routers learn details about the destination of the packets
| they carry, but this is not a problem for most purposes. The
| author goes on to make some vague insinuation that tls
| implementations are insecure but if they are the solution is to
| fix the implementation. The Internet is designed so that all
| types of implementations of networking software can communicate
| on equal terms which means that it is already an open protocol. L
| take
| pessimizer wrote:
| > Yes routers learn details about the destination of the
| packets they carry, but this is not a problem for most
| purposes.
|
| For which purposes is it a problem?
| Zaskoda wrote:
| Somewhat related - I really like the model of authenticating
| users via a wallet for the Ethereum network. It's not without
| it's problems and it's friction, but it creates a single public
| profile a user can use across different walled gardens. If you
| happen to use a wallet anyway, the experience of logging into
| various websites with it is rather glorious.
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