The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing
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The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing
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Re: The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing
#2>It's ironic because the internet was actually designed for decentralisation, a system that governments could use to coordinate their response in the event of nuclear war
This is not true. The internet was never designed to withstand nuclear war.
Re: The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing
#3Spot on article, but without a call to action. What can we do to combat the migration of society to a centralized corpro-government intertwined entity with no regard for
unprofitable privacy or individualism?
Re: The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing
#4>It's ironic because the internet was actually designed for decentralisation, a system that governments could use to coordinate their response in the event of nuclear war This is not true. The internet was never designed to withstand nuclear war.
Arpanet absolutely was designed to be a physically resilient network which could survive the loss of multiple physical switch locations.
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#5>It's ironic because the internet was actually designed for decentralisation, a system that governments could use to coordinate their response in the event of nuclear war This is not true. The internet was never designed to withstand nuclear war.
ARPANET was literally invented during the cold war for the specific and explicit purpose of networked communications resilience for government and military in the event major networking hubs went offline due to one or more successful nuclear attacks against the United States
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#6> They [outages] can force redundancy and resilience into systems.
They won’t until either the monetary pain of outages becomes greater than the inefficiency of holding on to more systems to support that redundancy, or, government steps in with clear regulation forcing their hand. And I’m not sure about the latter. So I’m not holding my breath about anything changing. It will continue to be a circus of doing everything on a shoestring because line must go up every quarter or a shareholder doesn’t keep their wings.
Re: The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing
#7Spot on article, but without a call to action. What can we do to combat the migration of society to a centralized corpro-government intertwined entity with no regard for unprofitable privacy or individualism?
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Re: The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing
#8>It's ironic because the internet was actually designed for decentralisation, a system that governments could use to coordinate their response in the event of nuclear war This is not true. The internet was never designed to withstand nuclear war.
ARPANET was literally invented during the cold war for the specific and explicit purpose of networked communications resilience for government and military in the event major networking hubs went offline due to one or more successful nuclear attacks against the United States
It literally wasn't. It's an urban myth.
>Bob Taylor initiated the ARPANET project in 1966 to enable resource sharing between remote computers.
>The ARPANET was not started to create a Command and Control System that would survive a nuclear attack, as many now claim.
Re: The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing
#9Spot on article, but without a call to action. What can we do to combat the migration of society to a centralized corpro-government intertwined entity with no regard for unprofitable privacy or individualism?
We could quibble about the premise.
Re: The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing
#10It would be a good thing, if it would cause anything to change. It obviously won't. As if a single person reading this post wasn't aware that the Internet is centralized, and couldn't name specifically a few sources of centralization (Cloudflare, AWS, Gmail, Github). As if it's the first time this happens. As if after the last time AWS failed (or the one before that, or one before…) anybody stopped using AWS. As if anybody could viably stop using them.