New York Times Calls For Internet 2

[Truthed]

Editor’s note: According to Markoff, the internet is so flawed and clogged with viruses, the only solution is to scrap it and start over. He suggests a “gated community” where users give up their anonymity and freedom in return for safety. Sounds like the same version of the internet our rulers have in mind.
Two decades ago a 23-year-old Cornell University graduate student brought the Internet to its knees with a simple software program that skipped from computer to computer at blinding speed, thoroughly clogging the then-tiny network in the space of a few hours.
The program was intended to be a digital “Kilroy Was Here.” Just a bit of cybernetic fungus that would unobtrusively wander the net. However, a programming error turned it into a harbinger heralding the arrival of a darker cyberspace, more of a mirror for all of the chaos and conflict of the physical world than a utopian refuge from it.
Since then things have gotten much, much worse.
Bad enough that there is a growing belief among engineers and security experts that Internet security and privacy have become so maddeningly elusive that the only way to fix the problem is to start over.
What a new Internet might look like is still widely debated, but one alternative would, in effect, create a “gated community” where users would give up their anonymity and certain freedoms in return for safety. Today that is already the case for many corporate and government Internet users. As a new and more secure network becomes widely adopted, the current Internet might end up as the bad neighborhood of cyberspace. You would enter at your own risk and keep an eye over your shoulder while you were there.

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[kidflash2008]

It sounds like a wonderful Orwellian approach to the problems on the internet. The government would know what sites everyone visits, and would approve or delete sites it disapproves of. Anyone who has an opinion that is counter to our beloved Big Brother, would be brought up on charges and publicly executed.

Is it that difficult to for the author to find a free anti-virus and spyware software?

[Truthed]

Originally Posted by kidflash2008

Is it that difficult to for the author to find a free anti-virus and spyware software?

No, but the government wants you to think its a major problem!

[kidflash2008]

Originally Posted by Truthed

No, but the government wants you to think its a major problem!

I hear what you are saying, Truthed! I hope people see through this shit, but unfortunately they did pass the Patriot Act very quickly and no one said anything. (Not even the usual fringe cases, until it was too late.)

[Constantine]

that's total bull crap. This just a way to control information.

[Truthed]

Originally Posted by Constantine

that's total bull crap. This just a way to control information.

Bingo. They know they are losing their credibility they use to have over all the mainstream media because of the internet, enough of that they say.