The unholy alliance in Congress that wants to censor the Internet.::I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving!
I had a very nice time myself visiting my family and staying with my in-laws and getting together with old high school friends. Then after that like all good cosmopolitan liberals everywhere I sat down to read this delightful new essay by celebrated
How do you think things like IPFS and I2P play into this decentralizing idea? (Genuine question, I’m just starting to learn about IPFS and I2P, so any info, perspective, etc, will be helpful).
It’s very disappointing that encryption wasn’t built in to TCPIP from the beginning. It was considered, but I think the concern was we lacked hardware to provide sufficient performance at the time. (And maybe that was just an excuse to enable surveillance).
I honestly don’t know. It’s going to have to be some peer system. If and what takes off I don’t know yet, but I’m watching and want to know. It’s going to be some peer based infrastructure. Just looking at the phones everyone carries, you got like 256gb of storage, 2 thru 5g, Bluetooth, wifi, nfc, all this wireless connection, and the processing to back it up. It needs to be easy as torrenting was in 2005, we need to make the infrastructure and UI easy for everyone, then a p2p or i2p whatever can take off.