On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Markus Sabadello < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Dmytri, > > Okay, sorry for using the word "extreme".. > > And again I don't know that much about political theory or economic > relations. > But still my question is, why would people at a very corporate kind of > conference (such as this <http://id-conf.com/> one) like the idea of > decentralized topologies..? > There was really a lot of talk about it, and many people there liked the > idea of the FreedomBox.. > > To step back in time a few decades, it may be worth remembering that the ARPAnet (the precursor to the Internet) was designed as a decentralized topology to resist attack. Where attack at that time was visualized as nuclear strike on government hardware assets, today DDOS and cyberattacks against the cloud are a good analogy for enterprise assets and communications. Why wouldn't corporate types like a decentralized topology? They are resisting getting nuked on a daily basis these days, it seems. The attacks are legion. yrs, > -- > Shava Nerad [email protected]
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