The Mission to Decentralize the Internet

Re:The Mission to Decentralize the Internet by jokoon on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @08:25AM (#6920957)

Centralized systems are almost asking to be spying on, laws or not. Even if the NSA does not have the right to do what it did, I'm sure they'd end up doing by using corruption, and there are many ways to do it. Worse, it would open the door to a lot of other shady practices, and I'm sure criminal would make a buck out of it.

The fact that a huge quantity of information is put in one place increases the risk it will peeked into by a lot.

Decentralized systems are a little more difficult to maintain and develop, but are so much cheaper and eliminate the risk of mass surveillance. There are still security risks depending on designs, but honestly I think decentralized has a lot of future, the advantages and features it brings counter balances the disadvantages by a lot.

I wish bittorrent inc would produce more technologies and some competitor would really be cool.

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Re:The Mission to Decentralize the Internet by salient on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @10:08AM (#6921465)

I agree. As long as big companies become so good at tracking and making money through surveillance themselves, it's just too irresistible for spy agencies not to try and get that data one way or another.

That's why companies need to at least use forward secrecy, keep data at rest encrypted, and also delete more ephemeral data a lot more quickly.

Google used to delete the data they have on their users every 6 months. I don't think they plan on ever deleting anything they have anymore now. That's the wrong way to go about it. Tracking data should not exist for more than a few months at most, and private communications should not be held for more than a year. Of course, it would be so much easier for the user, if everything was end-to-end encrypted, and then it wouldn't need to be deleted.

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