Vint Cerf Says It's Every Machine For Itself 82
Hugh Pickens writes "The Guardian has an interesting story on Vint Cerf, the 'father of the internet,' in which he says there's no silver bullet for scammers, spammers and criminals running zombie networks and porn-to-porn file swapping because 'the internet was designed that way.' Cerf adds, 'Like every medium, the internet can be abused. When we think about it, we can commit fraud locally and internationally using the telephone system and postal service.' However, Cerf is also convinced that it's the internet's openness — in allowing people with new ideas to do their thing without getting anyone's permission — that is the main source of its power, and he is against the idea of a two-tier internet with a trusted, controlled 'overnet' for commercial and business use, and an 'undernet' where anything goes. 'My bias right now tends to be "It's every man for himself" — you need to be suspicious whether you're inside the trusted cloud or not, and when it fails, the house of cards tends to collapse.'"
Re:Too late, gated communities exist, and always h (Score:1, Interesting)
You do realize Vint Cerf is referring directly to the Net Neutrality debate, right?
I would hope the description of a tiered Internet would make that apparent.
Overnet and an undernet? (Score:3, Interesting)
I hate to be cynical but, I think have simply an overnet and an undernet is simply too broad to secure properly. To target broad majority of commercial applications would leave the overnet too insecure and to secure it properly would leave it restrictive to get anything done commercially.