I'd advocate to build DARPANET for an untrusted environment with the expectation that DARPANET would be unleashed on the masses at some later point.
Ask HN: You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what do you change?
11–20 of 322 posts
Re: Ask HN: You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what do you change?
#12Better child protections. Not sure what the implementation would be though.
Re: Ask HN: You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what do you change?
#13It's not entirely fair, because in the 60s basically all modern crypto primitives were missing. If I had those:
1. Encrypted onion routing on layers that betray source/dest IP. 2. eSNI on all TLS connections. 3. Privacy-focused DNS.
Re: Ask HN: You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what do you change?
#14Require emails to be signed by the sender cryptographically.
We have DKIM and you can safely drop non-DKIM mail. This tells you the MTA is actually sending the mail.
The problem is that these MTAs get hacked or people just hijack domains.
Heck, the barrier to buying a domain is so low that this is a legit way of spamming too.
Re: Ask HN: You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what do you change?
#153 things: Security, Security and Security. BGP security, DNSSEC, TLS by default, etc.
None of those things secure the nodes of the internet, if the nodes aren't secure, nothing is.
Re: Ask HN: You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what do you change?
#16Oh, something minor. I’d make both domains and paths go from least significant to most significant, so com.google.mail/u/0/html
I didn’t realise how much I wanted this until now.
Re: Ask HN: You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what do you change?
#17Require emails to be signed by the sender cryptographically.
It's the 1960's. There's no RSA or AES or even DES.
Re: Ask HN: You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what do you change?
#18The most toxic part of the Internet today is identity. Some of the IP address space should have worked like mobile phone numbers - paid for by subscribers and representing single identities. Even better, after the invention of RSA, the government should have backed ISPs or states issuing signing identities for a protocol level identity standard - sort of like SIM cards that would “represent” you on a single, authoritative device without the possibility of delegation.
Re: Ask HN: You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what do you change?
#19What a great question. One of two things:
A) Establish the expectation that websites "close" in the middle of the night for ~5-6 hours, local time / for each timezone. I don't know if would best be done via cultural influence -- giving talks, writing essays, personal communication, testifying / making inroads with politicians -- or via creating some sort of protocol. The idea is to prevent the unhealthier aspects of internet binging and screen addiction.
B) Establish the expectation that internet comments are transcriptions of voice recordings. I.e. to leave a comment, you have to call a phone number and leave a message which then gets transcribed as "the comment." In order to respond or reply to a post or a thread, you have to listen to the message and tone of voice of the person you are replying to. I don't think this would solve every internet dialogue, but it'd promote healthier interactions and less division.
In my book, the largest problems with the internet are techno-cultural, not technological.
Re: Ask HN: You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what do you change?
#20[deleted]