The Plot To Replace The Internet

[icyfroth]

Infam‘Ethical hackers’ in Fulham think they have a way to make your online life truly private, secure and anonymous. The world will be very different if they succeed.

An alternative way of organising the internet is being built as we speak: an internet where no one is in control, where the government can’t find you or shut you down, where big tech companies aren’t able to learn everything about you. A decentralised net that is both private and impossible to censor.

This revolution is being plotted in snazzy offices just off Fulham High Street in south-west London — not what I was expecting, since you associate hackers with hoodies, basements and graffiti. But the Ethereum project isn’t a typical hackers’ collective: it received around $12 million of crowd-funded support when it was founded a couple of years ago, by a 20-year-old Russian-Canadian programming wizard called .

That’s been enough to hire 40 of the smartest geeks you’ll ever meet, and house them in comfort in Amsterdam, Berlin and London.

Welcome to Web 3.0,’ says Vinay Gupta, a hacker-**bleep**-poverty-activist who’s part of the Ethereum team, as I arrive. Web 1.0 was all static websites.

Web 2.0 was interactive social media platforms like Facebook. This third iteration is about encrypted peer-to-peer networks. It sounds dry, but Ethereum — which is launching part of its software this spring — has London’s tech crowd purring. Last year it won the World Technology Award for IT software.

IBM has already used it to build a washing machine that orders its own soap.

But these people aren’t in it for the money. Ethereum is an open-source project which is available to everyone, and its employees will slink off when the project is complete. They’re doing it because they want to transform the internet — and, by extension, society.

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a) I wonder how much it will cost.

b) I wonder how hard it will be to learn.

[poddster]

Big Brother Incognito is arriving.

Get everyone's confidence and then screw them all at once, cool trick...............I wonder how many would take the bait?

You can count me out 🙂

[icyfroth]

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@poddster wrote:

Big Brother Incognito is arriving.

Get everyone's confidence and then screw them all at once, cool trick...............I wonder how many would take the bait?

You can count me out 🙂

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what if you have no choice?

[tasfleur]

It could be argued that the people seeking to change the internet that way can be counteracted by any other just as cluey and computer savvy team, governments or otherwise.  There is nothing one human can do that can't be outsmarted by another, history has always dictated that ... 

It could also be argued that the internet does indeed need some kind of 'control' (for the want of a better word, and as opposed to 'big brother') because it can, and is, used for evil intent as well as innocent and good purposes.

[cherry*135]

Of course there will be a choice. There is also Maid Service (Scotland) similar to this one. The internet we have now isn't going anywhere.

People who use the internet for illegal purposes - terrorists, drug dealers, illegal - would find most advantage in internet that can't trace user...that wouldn't be good at all.

Using a VPN now should give enough privacy for most people.

[lind9650]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@poddster wrote:

Big Brother Incognito is arriving.

Get everyone's confidence and then screw them all at once, cool trick...............I wonder how many would take the bait?

You can count me out 🙂

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what if you have no choice?

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Do you mean the choice of internet?

Won't bother me. I have lived without internet for 65 years and will be able to cope without it again. May be a good thing in the long run.

Erica

[gleee58]

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@am*3 wrote:
Of course there will be a choice. There is also Maid Service (Scotland) similar to this one. The internet we have now isn't going anywhere.

People who use the internet for illegal purposes - terrorists, drug dealers, illegal - would find most advantage in internet that can't trace user...that wouldn't be good at all.

Using a VPN now should give enough privacy for most people.

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Isn't the minister trying to outlaw the use of VPNs too, in his haste to suck up to those who think Australians pirate too much?

[*mrgrizz*]

australia post will be happy

[the_hawk*]

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@tasfleur wrote:

It could also be argued that the internet does indeed need some kind of 'control' (for the want of a better word, and as opposed to 'big brother') because it can, and is, used for evil intent as well as innocent and good purposes.

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the issue with that is the internet is not owned by one individual, company or government, it is owned by every individual that uses it and there for its up to the individual to be resposible for their own use, you are in control and resposible for what you do and to protect yourself.
Companies like Google, microsoft and Governments want to take control but its not their to control, they can and do monitor what goes on but they are realy wasting their time because a simple VPN will get around any system.

[the_hawk*]

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@gleee58 wrote:

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Isn't the minister trying to outlaw the use of VPNs too, in his haste to suck up to those who think Australians pirate too much?

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They can try but they wont succeed with anyone that has half a clue and dont care about the threats, they dont know and cant tell you are using a good VPN so no way of stopping them.