On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 09:36:47PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > "And it's only the beginning. I agree with Groklaw's owner. The Internet > > > is over." > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Darknets. What we cypherpunks have been saying last two decades. > > > I have two main thoughts around this. > > 1. Sousveillance [1] is one of the best hopes of not falling into > dystopia. Big Brother is scary only until the point that everyone starts > looking back.
I disagree. Centralized well-founded players backed by barrel of guns in a post-democratic society (we're living in a managed democracy/ inverted totalitarianism im much of the West) have an intrinsic edge against well-meaning anarchist experts (and I say that as a well-meaning anarchist). Besides, if you want to leak the collected information safely you will need abovementioned dark infrastructure. What for? To reboot the failed politics. Technology may not be able to route around political damage, but it can help fighting the failure in politics. > 2. A brilliant quote from silklister Heather Madrone captures my > thoughts. From memory, "Save your dial-up modems. We can restart the > internet right under their feet." Except that you can't. Wireless meshes are a poor match for TBit/s fiber backbones, especially if you're looking at edge of human habitation. Bandwidth will be terribly scarce in the roll-your-own Internet.
