How can we get the layperson to run a "homeserver" to host all their data locally and have a strong pki infra.
30 years ago, people would've said the same things about routers, so I think it's possible with the right ui/incentives
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Provable identity: you get an email, hi i'm a hiring manager from company X, can we get in touch about job Y, could you please send me your (secret) phone number? It should be possible for you, the receiver of the email, to check if the email originated at company X. Digital Notary: this came up in several data privacy discussions. You (A) are in contact with B, but you don't want to send B something like a scan of y…
> It should be possible for you, the receiver of the email, to check if the email originated at company X. You could check the DKIM signature of the email.
Exactly. "Did this email originate at $server" is what DKIM and SPF are meant to solve and IME they work well. Setting them up is not particularly difficult and there is a wealth of open documentation about it.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
If such a thing was possible we'd be the first to roll it out. DDoS is a scourge which is why we made DDoS mitigation unmetered on all plans including free: https://blog.cloudflare.com/unmetered-mitigation/
Allow me to paraphrase your comment: “It’s not possible to solve this problem, except by centralizing all the web through us. Aren’t we generous to not punish our customers when they get hit by this problem?”
Do not “rephrase” other’s comments.
Stick to your own.
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#64China being better than the rest of the world at IPv6
I have a real simple proposal: Turn off (block) ipv4 for one minute a day. Next month, increase it to 2 minutes...
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#65How can we get the layperson to run a "homeserver" to host all their data locally and have a strong pki infra. 30 years ago, people would've said the same things about routers, so I think it's possible with the right ui/incentives
What about Helm?
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#66I'm pretty sure that BGP is still horribly insecure at its core, which means that all it takes for BGP hijacking to occur is for someone to forget to configure their filters properly. (See: that time that a bunch of Google traffic started getting routed through Russia. Or the time that YouTube became inaccessible to the entire world)
We've seen several major incidents caused by mistakes in the past few years. It's only a matter of time before an actively malicious attack on BGP causes major damage.
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#67How can we get the layperson to run a "homeserver" to host all their data locally and have a strong pki infra. 30 years ago, people would've said the same things about routers, so I think it's possible with the right ui/incentives
>I think it's possible with the right ui/incentives
I want that, but for the masses of tech-illiterate Average Joes out there, it's tough to compete against the sheer convenience of "tap next to trust big tech with all your private data and sync it all in the cloud" that you get when you unbox your iPhone/Android. And for most people their phone is their primary computing device now so their lives are tied to those ecosystems and we've been conditioned for over a decade now to just give our private data to the phones' ecosystems without asking questions because everting is so convenient and ignorance is bliss.
Trying to get average consumers off the big-tech ecosystems at this point is like trying to unplug people from the matrix. It's nearly impossible, unless some new EU-style regulations break up these monopolies first so that third party alternatives can compete on feature parity.
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#68Making the network information aware is the next Internet infra problem.
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#69It would be nice to have a cable alternative to IEEE 802.15.4/6LoWPAN. IP seems to be the future for home automation. The problem with wireless is that you end up with devices you have to change batteries and reliability issues in high density housing. Laying a twisted pair ethernet cable to each temperature sensor is overkill and too expensive.
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#70How can we get the layperson to run a "homeserver" to host all their data locally and have a strong pki infra. 30 years ago, people would've said the same things about routers, so I think it's possible with the right ui/incentives
The first problem to solve would be getting a symmetric fiber connection to their home so they can actually upload at more than a highly volatile 5Mbps that is probably split amongst whole neighborhood. Second would be ipv6 address to not have to deal with CGNAT and make the ISP as dumb of a pipe as possible.