Winning back the Internet by building our own
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#3I2P [0] does not require a special infrastructure and provides strong anonymity on top of existing networks.
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#4How does this idea apply to mobile networks? Would it require access to cell tower infrastructure to work?
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#5I2P [0] does not require a special infrastructure and provides strong anonymity on top of existing networks. [0] https://geti2p.net
This is pretty awesome. What are the missing pieces to get people using this? Is there a need?
I think it's being able to launch infrastructure like AWS but for consumers. Imagine one click to launch your "virtual home" / bastion. You can mange your virtual home from trusted devices (desktop, mobile, possibly web if you grant keys to 3rd party). In your virtual home you can setup I2P, a personal VPN (e.g. algo by trailofbits), tunnel/forward home server traffic to public internet (e.g. RPi), install torrent client & fire sharing drive for family, etc.
Thoughts?
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#6FidoNet is still living, however it lacks at least strong authentication and data confidentiality (no crypto used at all). But it shows that people could be capable of creating global networks without unwanted third-parties.
For building store-and-forward networks I created NNCP several years ago and lack of connectivity, censorship (making no connection links) are one of the issues it aims to solve: http://www.nncpgo.org/Use-cases.html
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#7I'm currently building a network for a cheesy 80ies-style virtual Lisp machine from a parallel universe with libp2p. It's very cumbersome, the Go libp2p library is pretty arcane and split up across too many packages. But it does work, and when it's ready users of my machine will be able to send each other encrypted messages over a p2p network with NAT traversal.
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#8This article basically describes how the current internet was created.... why would this new internet end up any different?
You can't expect every person to be skilled enough (and with the time and desire) to be their own network administrator, so someone will have to run the network for those people... and they will need to be compensated for that work... and some people will be really good at running that network, and will have lots of clients and get very efficient at running networks, so more people will hire them.... and they will get big enough to hire people and pay for laying cables between networks... and suddenly we have the exact same system we have now.
What would be different this time around if we started from scratch?
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#9I2P [0] does not require a special infrastructure and provides strong anonymity on top of existing networks. [0] https://geti2p.net
Similar project (albeit not production-ready): https://gnunet.org
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#10This article basically describes how the current internet was created.... why would this new internet end up any different? You can't expect every person to be skilled enough (and with the time and desire) to be their own network administrator, so someone will have to run the network for those people... and they will need to be compensated for that work... and some people will be really good at running that network,…
And as soon as there is the slightest bit of traction, the same companies would own it!