CDN and cybersecurity giant Cloudflare held its Q2 earnings call on Thursday, during which chief financial officer Thomas Seifert gave a concerning prediction about what the web...
Yeah, but it doesn’t really offer anything useful to fix this situation
My feeling is if we’re smart we’d probably layer it with some sort of DNS style distributed reputation system… If we’re not (which is what will inevitably happen) we’ll continue to consolidate the entire internet into a few huge walled gardens where information is heavily controlled, but you trade every shred of your privacy, anonymity, and dignity for convenience.
Well, the old “web of links” still works, if people valued that enough to put the effort into it it could continue to thrive and grow…
Your DNS style distributed reputation system needs one fundamental foundational element to have a chance at providing any kind of value: reliable/secure author identity. PGP and signed documents have been available through standard formats for 30+ years, but almost nobody has adopted that kind of identity for mainstream publication and consumption. Until they do, reputation is going to be chaoticly fluid, unreliable and trivial to hijack/poison.
http/https works as well as it ever did, it’s just that the overwhelming quantity of new sites have gummed it up for their own purposes.
Yeah, but it doesn’t really offer anything useful to fix this situation
My feeling is if we’re smart we’d probably layer it with some sort of DNS style distributed reputation system… If we’re not (which is what will inevitably happen) we’ll continue to consolidate the entire internet into a few huge walled gardens where information is heavily controlled, but you trade every shred of your privacy, anonymity, and dignity for convenience.
Well, the old “web of links” still works, if people valued that enough to put the effort into it it could continue to thrive and grow…
Your DNS style distributed reputation system needs one fundamental foundational element to have a chance at providing any kind of value: reliable/secure author identity. PGP and signed documents have been available through standard formats for 30+ years, but almost nobody has adopted that kind of identity for mainstream publication and consumption. Until they do, reputation is going to be chaoticly fluid, unreliable and trivial to hijack/poison.