The depressing future of the Internet

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What the hell is this?

How does someone so off base and paranoid get to be a
writer for this kind of site?

Did you hide in a bunker when the year 2000 came
because all of our clocks would go haywire and we would
never be able to know what time it is?

I think you raise legitimate concerns, but don't be a
paranoid freak and begin babbling your absurd
predictions. The DNS flaw is easily fixed, it has been done
on a large number of dns servers. Just because some have
not means nothing, they will if the dns attacks actually
happen.
While the IPv6 switch has been slow that doesn't mean a
damn thing. Once we actually really do start running out of
IP Addresses the change will happen overnight. Necessity
is not only the mother of invention but also change and
adaptation. Your paranoia over the lack of IP addresses is
as ridiculous as saying that we could never get more than
128kb of memory. Gee who would need more than that?

You then mention terrorists disrupting the internet. How
would this been done exactly? The Internet is a distributed
computer system and it is just not possible to take the
whole thing down unless you had an incredible amount of
power, money, and influence. It is far more likely that
governments, such as China with the blocking of the
Itunes store will be the cause of of massive internet
disruption.

Posted by: ChrisOPeterson   Posted on: 08/28/08  (Edited: 08/28/2008 @ 11:47) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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