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Vint Cerf Says It's Every Machine For Itself
Hugh Pickens writes "The Guardian has an interesting story on Vint Cerf, the 'father of the internet,' in which he says there's no silver bullet for scammers, spammers and criminals running zombie networks and porn-to-porn file swapping because 'the internet was designed that way.' Cerf adds, 'Like every medium, the internet can be abused. When we think about it, we can commit fraud locally and internationally using the telephone system and postal service.' However, Cerf is also convinced that it's the internet's openness — in allowing people with new ideas to do their thing without getting anyone's permission — that is the main source of its power, and he is against the idea of a two-tier internet with a trusted, controlled 'overnet' for commercial and business use, and an 'undernet' where anything goes. 'My bias right now tends to be "It's every man for himself" — you need to be suspicious whether you're inside the trusted cloud or not, and when it fails, the house of cards tends to collapse.'"
See? Even Vint Cerf says the Internet was designed for porn. I feel very exonerated now.
its like regular file swapping - but with twice the porn!
Prediction: The real iPhone killer is going to be sex robots from Japan. Think about it.
Both Heaven and Hell have gates. Not sure which one I'd prefer...
We got hell from Gates on Earth and I didn't like it... but that's done now.
Most of the stuff on
Maybe we should fall back to the lead variety.
So says anonymous internet tough guy Sponge Bath.
What's porn-to-porn fileswapping?
You show her yours and she (or more probably Stone Phillips) shows you a jpeg of some hot 15 year old.
Have gnu, will travel.
... you need to be suspicious whether you're inside the trusted cloud or not, and when it fails, the house of cards tends to collapse.
There's nothing worse then when your cards are in the clouds and the house falls down. Was Vint a partial inspiration for Zapp Brannigan by any chance?
If we hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
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