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Ask Dr. Vinton Cerf About the Internet

Posted by Roblimo on from the more-honorary-degrees-than-some-people-have-socks dept.

If anyone can claim to have "invented the Internet," (or at least to have co-invented it) it's Vint Cerf, who never makes this claim himself. But he's certainly had a hand in shaping most of what we call "the Internet" today, and is now working on taking the Internet or something like it to Mars and other planets. A Google Search for "Vint Cerf" brings up thousands of responses, so you should have no trouble coming up with a unique, interesting question for him. (As is usual with Slashdot interviews, we'll send 10 of the top-moderated questions to Dr. Cerf about 24 hours after this post, and publish his answers shortly after he gets them back to us.)

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  1. Changing the 'Net by bytesmythe · · Score: 2, Redundant

    I would like to know what thing you would change in the modern Internet that you think would make it better. Less regulation? A different protocol? A method of removing vulnerable points to eliminate certain types of network-based attacks? Built-in encryption? Or something else entirely that most users haven't even dreamed up yet?

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    bytesmythe
    Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together.
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  2. So... by brooks_talley · · Score: 1, Redundant

    ...How many "Cerf the Net" jokes have you heard? What's the best one?

    -b

  3. web-cerfing by terrified · · Score: 0, Redundant

    don't you hate that it's not called "Cerf-ing" the net?

  4. Re:Answer by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Oh. That makes sense.

    My best guess is, he's agin it. ;)

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