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GENI To Replace Internet, Gets $12M Funding
Postglobalism writes "A massive project to redesign and rebuild the Internet from scratch is inching along with $12 million in government funding and donations of network capacity by two major research organizations. Many researchers want to rethink the Internet's underlying architecture, saying a 'clean-slate' approach is the only way to truly address security and other challenges that have cropped up since the Internet's birth in 1969."
Other challenges, indeed. Such as surveillance, "trusted" computing, IP "protection", etc.
The new internet will be locked down much tighter, I am certain.
They need to ditch this open, uncontrollable Internet for something the governments have more control over.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
For better or worse, I think that we're stuck with what we've got. We'd really be better off improving the Internet we have (DNSSEC, end-to-end encryption on all protocols by default, PKI for the masses) than redesigning it from the ground up.
Even if they had 12 billion dollars, it wouldn't scratch the surface of the cost of recreating the Internet.
This new version of the wheel offers an anti-bubblegum coating, side curtain airbags to protect it from damage during a crash, and laser-etched tread for maximum efficiency. Seriously, why use tires when you can have a shiny new set Wheels 2.0?
And all were abysmal, expensive failures. The marketplace can be extremely conservative at times.
I'm just surprised that apparently all it takes is $12 million to do it.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
TFA basically boils down to this single statement: "We've got money and some shiny toys to play with, wheee!!!!". It doesn't say anything about what their long-term intentions are specifically. I for one reserve judgement on the issue until I see something more concrete -- with the exception that I agree that nothing of any real substance will come of this for at least a decade.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here, and guess this 'new' more 'secure' internet will not allow for any type of anonymity, and more ease of tracking who says what and when in a more easily searched and archived format...both for government AND corporations.
After all, the current internet, for some reason, seems not to have been designed with big business commerce nor strict government control. Something that obviously (rolls eyes) needs to be fixed the 2nd time around.
I mean...the nerve of people getting on a system, where every computer is a peer, and can publish their thoughts willy-nilly and interconnect in ways not expressedly sanctioned by our government officials that obviously know what's better and safer for us.
Not to mention how it is often used now to closely monitor and poke fun at said officials...
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Eh? Spending on welfare (TANF) is a very small part of the budget, $16.5 billion. At a population of 301 million, that's $54.80/year/person, fifteen cents a day per person. The base defense budget - not including war funding - is more than $481 billion, $1598/person/year, $4.38 per day per person. U.S. military spending makes up the bulk of world military spending. We could cut ours in half and still enormously outspend all potential adversaries.
Conservative politicians like to conflate "entitlements" all together, which includes not just welfare but medical spending (prices for which are driven up by the for-profit model and by drug patents, both of which are made possible by government action), veterans affairs and military retirement payments (which should be properly counted under defense), and Social Security spending.
The NSF's budget is $6.065 billion, $20.15/year/person, about five and a half cents a day per person.
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"It's really easy to talk like that, but look at CB verses Ham Radio. The Internet we have today is like CB radio...anyone can transmit and receive. CB radio has its advantages and disadvantages"
While I agree with you in theory, in practice we know corporations are going to do their damnest to lock it down and be able to block and censor and "black out" websites they don't like. They HATE the fact that information is free, they want to enclose the last commons which is infinite (information, ideas, etc), we can't let these pieces of capitalist shit have it. (no offense to other capitalists who genuinely believe in freedom of information)
With the regulation came improved communications
I don't understand how a regulated internet is going to improve communications.
Samsung took back my unlocked bootloader because Google wants me to rent movies. They're both evil.
It will improve approved communications, non-approved communications like P2P, anonymous posting, and exposing the rich and powerful's shortcommings, negative comments about our corporate overlords, ect... will obviously not be allowed. That will free up bandwidth for approved communications, improving their speed and reliability.
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!
Bingo! We have a winner! The way I look at it is this: Would YOU trust THIS government,with the FISA dodging,retro immunity,warrantless wiretapping,etc to design ANYTHING that wouldn't log everything you did and everywhere you went?
That is why we need to hang onto the current Internet with our dying breath,because I can GUARANTEE you that anything that comes along to replace it with be so Big Brother friendly it might as well have the "Big Brother is watching you" logo pop up on connection. The power mad rule the land and there is no way they'll allow any kind of new network that doesn't have their goals in mind.
Can you imagine if it was easy to find out who posted what and make it(and possibly them) disappear? No Abu Ghraib scandal,no photos or videos out of Iraq that wasn't "The winning of hearts and minds",etc. The Internet would end up like that old joke from Airplane II "Today a 4 alarm fire made way for GLORIOUS new tractor factory!". Because that is all we would get:spin. You might be able to say "Brand X sucks,you should buy Brand Y!" but that is about as far as you would get to dissent. Personally,I'm still waiting for them to pull the "We have to block teh eveil kiddy pr0n and its awful child pr0nograhers!" and give us a great US firewall that just happens to block wikileaks,The Pirate Bay,and lots of other undesirable sites "by accident". But as always this is my 02c based on what I see on our news every day,YMMV
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