alt Hacker NewsCurrently, if you want the internet-climate of the 1990s or even 2010s, you need to build yours, preferably on a different planet, with your own hardware.
We don't have any "ideal" places anymore.
And we need to defend what we support and believe.
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This is exactly right. The new internet is analogous to cable television, but of course so much worse in many ways. The outrage and addiction are far worse, there are brand new privacy constraints, and of course it's controlled by powerful business interests with much more time and resources to pump into the problem than you have to fight it.
Yeah I think we're going to need something like tor soon, but with more mass market appeal. The internet as we know it is dying.
With the lack of encryption at that time I assume the NSA and similar agencies could read almost anything they wanted.
Have you been around at that time? NSA had recording boxes at ISP routing places, every few days guy would come to swap hdds. Most com was unencrypted. Or read about echolon...