{"id":3391,"date":"2005-06-26T02:55:19","date_gmt":"2005-06-26T10:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/06\/26\/the-internets-falling-apart\/"},"modified":"2005-06-26T02:55:19","modified_gmt":"2005-06-26T10:55:19","slug":"the-internets-falling-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/26\/the-internets-falling-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet’s falling apart"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tIt’s not just China that’s whacking the Internet, its under constant attack by hackers and spammers and mis-configured routers. See this insightful article in the Washington Post<\/a> quoting the people who know:<\/p>\n

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“The Internet is stuck in the flower-power days of the ’60s during which people thought the world would be beautiful if you are just nice,” said Karl Auerbach, a former Cisco Systems Inc. computer scientist who volunteers with several engineering groups trying to improve the Internet…<\/p>\n

“The problem with the Internet is that anything you do with it now is worth a lot of money. It’s not just about science anymore. It’s about who gets to reap the rewards to bringing safe technologies to people,” said Daniel C. Lynch, 63, who as an engineer at the Stanford Research Institute and at the University of Southern California in the 1970s helped develop the Internet’s framework…<\/p>\n

“All this was an experiment. We were trying to figure out whether this technology would work. We weren’t anticipating this would become the telecommunications network of the 21st century,” said Vinton G. Cerf, 62, who with fellow scientist Robert T. Kahn, 66, helped draft the blueprints for the network while it was still a Defense Department research project.<\/p>\n

Even as he marveled at the wonders of instant messaging, Napster and other revolutionary tools that would not have been possible without the Internet, Leonard Kleinrock, 71, a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles who is credited with sending the first message — “lo,” for “log on” — from one computer to another in 1969, began to see the Internet’s dark side. “Right now the Internet is running amok and we are in a very difficult period,” Kleinrock said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Consequently, an effort is underway to engineer a more robust and resilient Internet2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile back in Flower-Power land, the ersatz civil libertarians<\/a> and misguided idealists<\/a> insist all is well<\/a>. If only they knew the half of it.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not just China that’s whacking the Internet, its under constant attack by hackers and spammers and mis-configured routers. See this insightful article in the Washington Post quoting the people who know: “The Internet is stuck in the flower-power days of the ’60s during which people thought the world would be beautiful if you are … Continue reading “The Internet’s falling apart”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-SH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}