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The Case for Rebuilding The Internet From Scratch

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the armchair-quarterback-pipedream dept.

dotnothing writes "I just caught a column on a security site advocating for a total start from scratch as far as certain internet protocols like SMTP. It's an interesting idea and there are some ideas on how to conduct the transition... if everyone would agree on something like this it would definitely reduce the spam (among other things)."

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  1. Now this would really be science fiction.... by Blaine+Hilton · · Score: -1, Troll
    I wonder if he will include a Windows based computer that doesn't crashing in his new sci-fi museum...

    Go calculate something.

  2. OK Then. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Redesign the internet. But won't somebody PLEASE think of the children and remember to keep The Giver

  3. Re:How History will see it by buyo-kun · · Score: 0, Troll

    Who the hell put insightful, I was trying to be funny, and mocking of it.

    *Sighs*

    O well, better insightful then troll

  4. Re:Just have a new system concurrently by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You couldn't do that.. Microsoft would release (at the same time no less) a version called SMTP.NET which would be incompatible with both SMTP and SMTP2.. corporations would be FUDded into believing that SMTP.NET was superior and thus the art of simple mail transfer protocol would be monopolised by Microsoft.

    I'm sorry.. its late.. but I just had to poke fun at Microsoft.

  5. Oh no... by sharph · · Score: 0, Troll

    I got a spam...
    well, i guess its time to rewrite the entire internet from scratch so that everybody will have to by a $2000 certificate from VeriSign and force everybody to use it, just so there's no more spam.

    Sounds like a stupid plan to me.

  6. Philosophae by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    You idiot this [goatse.cx] is The Giver. What you linked to is the Receiver. Dumbass.

    So, if this is the giver, and this is the reciever, who does this happy chap happen to be????