No, the solution is to rid ourselves of the Plain Old Telephone System, as well as IP-based internet, and move to something that doesn’t rely on a corporation to communicate, is secure for everyone, and is free and open source.
No, the solution is to rid ourselves of the Plain Old Telephone System, as well as IP-based internet, and move to something that doesn’t rely on a corporation to communicate, is secure for everyone, and is free and open source.
Rid ourselves of IP-based Internet? Lol. What.
It’s already free and open source. Each continent has their own managing entity like ARIN or RIPE. When you sign up for IP ranges (where these entities act as a neutral party/make sure IPs are fair), you have to announce them yourself using BGP and peer with other ISPs yourself, or buy a service to announce your ranges for you. Owning a piece of the IP space on the Internet is doable by anybody with the will and resources to do it.
It’s also secure. Many of the entities that implement BGP require a digital signature that the ASN provides so that ranges in America aren’t suddenly announced from China or Russia (as example) and announcements can be cryptographically verified. Cloudflare is one example that is fully engaged in implementing this on the Internet with other peers, it’s opt-in unfortunately due to how BGP works.
There isn’t a single corporation that owns the entire Internet or policies it. It’s its own system shared by everyone. Everyone who announces IP space shares responsibility that the IPs are not abused. There’s layers to the responsibilities too, such as when dealing with email spam. An abuse letter may go to multiple contacts just for awareness of their responsibility.
Finally, IPv6 is theoretically scalable to the solar system and beyond as humanity expands away from Earth. It’s designed with future proofing in mind and lessons from past mistakes with IPv4. IPv6 is amazing compared to IPv4, no DHCP required–systems can just pick a stateless IP and start communicating–and no NAT to get in the way of systems communicating with the rest of the Internet (though still supported…if you wanted to use NAT on IPv6 for whatever reason).
I don’t get where this original comment is coming from.
IP-based internet relies on so many corporations, organizations, governments, etc., to play nicely. They hoard IPv4 ranges and let you “rent” out blocks of IPs if you pay them enough. This is not free and open access to the internet.
In order to connect to the internet, you are required to pay an ISP. They then dictate how you can use your service. For some residential ISPs, you aren’t allowed to use certain ports, so you cant host your own services like email, websites, etc. You also have to monitor how much bandwidth you are using to make sure you don’t go over your “data cap”. This is why these centralized services are so big for things like email and web hosting. We’ll get more into data collection here in a bit.
IP-based internet is flawed in that it allows DDoS attacks to take out a server that might be limited on protection. There is no redundancy or self-healing properties built-in that will protect the little guy. You can always subscribe to services like CloudFlare, who will then Man-In-The-Middle your internet traffic. You then have to abide by their terms of service, which is not desirable (especially if new hostile leadership were to come in and take over the company). Also, unless you are paying multiple ISPs for redundant connections to the internet backbone, you are vulnerable to Sybil attacks on your network. If subscribed to a single ISP, and it has downtime, you will have downtime along with them.
Any data sent between one IP to another is not encrypted by default. You have to bolt-on entirely different protocols to have that capability. As a result of that, we ended up with a very splintered implementation of encrypting data-in-transit. There are thousands of messenger applications, transmissions protocols, certificate authorities, etc., that often aren’t compatible with others. They also individually have their own set of issues.
Data collection… Ads… Trackers. Oh my! The end user of most modern websites are connecting to multiple servers, even though they visited a single site. Those users are tracked as they hop website to website. Often, these companies keep a profile on anyone matching that fingerprint. You have no control over that data. If you turn off connections to those servers, the website can become unusable. You can’t seriously say this is the best we can do. Why not have a network that prevents you from being tracked?
what is the solution then? iMessage become an open platform?
I think the FCC should create a new standard that doesn’t need googles servers.
No, the solution is to rid ourselves of the Plain Old Telephone System, as well as IP-based internet, and move to something that doesn’t rely on a corporation to communicate, is secure for everyone, and is free and open source.
Rid ourselves of IP-based Internet? Lol. What.
It’s already free and open source. Each continent has their own managing entity like ARIN or RIPE. When you sign up for IP ranges (where these entities act as a neutral party/make sure IPs are fair), you have to announce them yourself using BGP and peer with other ISPs yourself, or buy a service to announce your ranges for you. Owning a piece of the IP space on the Internet is doable by anybody with the will and resources to do it.
It’s also secure. Many of the entities that implement BGP require a digital signature that the ASN provides so that ranges in America aren’t suddenly announced from China or Russia (as example) and announcements can be cryptographically verified. Cloudflare is one example that is fully engaged in implementing this on the Internet with other peers, it’s opt-in unfortunately due to how BGP works.
There isn’t a single corporation that owns the entire Internet or policies it. It’s its own system shared by everyone. Everyone who announces IP space shares responsibility that the IPs are not abused. There’s layers to the responsibilities too, such as when dealing with email spam. An abuse letter may go to multiple contacts just for awareness of their responsibility.
Finally, IPv6 is theoretically scalable to the solar system and beyond as humanity expands away from Earth. It’s designed with future proofing in mind and lessons from past mistakes with IPv4. IPv6 is amazing compared to IPv4, no DHCP required–systems can just pick a stateless IP and start communicating–and no NAT to get in the way of systems communicating with the rest of the Internet (though still supported…if you wanted to use NAT on IPv6 for whatever reason).
I don’t get where this original comment is coming from.
IP-based internet relies on so many corporations, organizations, governments, etc., to play nicely. They hoard IPv4 ranges and let you “rent” out blocks of IPs if you pay them enough. This is not free and open access to the internet.
In order to connect to the internet, you are required to pay an ISP. They then dictate how you can use your service. For some residential ISPs, you aren’t allowed to use certain ports, so you cant host your own services like email, websites, etc. You also have to monitor how much bandwidth you are using to make sure you don’t go over your “data cap”. This is why these centralized services are so big for things like email and web hosting. We’ll get more into data collection here in a bit.
IP-based internet is flawed in that it allows DDoS attacks to take out a server that might be limited on protection. There is no redundancy or self-healing properties built-in that will protect the little guy. You can always subscribe to services like CloudFlare, who will then Man-In-The-Middle your internet traffic. You then have to abide by their terms of service, which is not desirable (especially if new hostile leadership were to come in and take over the company). Also, unless you are paying multiple ISPs for redundant connections to the internet backbone, you are vulnerable to Sybil attacks on your network. If subscribed to a single ISP, and it has downtime, you will have downtime along with them.
Any data sent between one IP to another is not encrypted by default. You have to bolt-on entirely different protocols to have that capability. As a result of that, we ended up with a very splintered implementation of encrypting data-in-transit. There are thousands of messenger applications, transmissions protocols, certificate authorities, etc., that often aren’t compatible with others. They also individually have their own set of issues.
Data collection… Ads… Trackers. Oh my! The end user of most modern websites are connecting to multiple servers, even though they visited a single site. Those users are tracked as they hop website to website. Often, these companies keep a profile on anyone matching that fingerprint. You have no control over that data. If you turn off connections to those servers, the website can become unusable. You can’t seriously say this is the best we can do. Why not have a network that prevents you from being tracked?
IP-based internet? What do you mean by that, how else are we supposed to provide unique addresses for every device on a network?
that’s probably very far in the future
someone is still gonna hold the power anyway
Wgar?