Tech Guru Warns Of Internet “Disaster”

[Ambrocious]

Paul Joseph Watson

Prison Planet.com

February 28, 2013

Inventor and scientist Danny Hillis warns that the
Internet has “expanded it way beyond its limits,” and is set for a
“disaster,” calling for an ‘Internet Plan B’ that would operate in times
of emergency.

Hillis is the founder of Thinking Machines Corporation,
which developed the Connection Machine, a series of supercomputers
designed by Hillis while he was working at MIT.

Speaking to Wired’s
Michael V. Copeland at the TED 2013 conference currently taking place
in Long Beach, Hillis argues that because so many interconnected systems
are now reliant on the world wide web, “We’re setting ourselves up for
disaster, like we did with the financial system.”

Pointing to examples like the Stuxnet virus, US military
data being routed through China, and the threat of a massive denial of
service attack targeting the entire web, Hillis advocates building a
second backbone that would kick in like a back-up generator “when the
internet is in trouble.”

What Hillis imagines is a second network that could come

online in case of emergency. It would use different protocols from the

existing internet, and would be kept separate as much as possible
(“Hygiene would be required,” Hillis says.) So when the internet goes
down, police stations, hospitals and airports could still function.

In the face of the billions of dollars that companies
and governments face to lose if their swath of the internet is taken
over by bad guys, to say nothing of the chaos that would occur with a
wholesale shutdown of the internet, the few hundred million dollars it
would cost to build Hillis’ Plan B seems like money well spent.

As we have documented for the best part of a decade,
Internet Plan B, or Internet 2, would be a perfect excuse for
authorities to replace the current Wild West-style Internet system with a
newly regulated, censored structure under which everyone would require
permission and approval to operate a website.

Of course, this would be a routine procedure for monied
corporations, prominent individuals and offshoots of the establishment
itself, but could serve to strangle independent voices that have helped
mould the Internet into what it represents today – the final bastion of
true free speech.

Citing threats posed to cybersecurity, governments could
agree to kill off the old world wide web in favor of a highly
controlled Internet which would bar terrorists, criminals, subversives
and anyone deemed a security risk by the state from getting online – a
no fly list for cyberspace.

Internet ID cards or licenses would be issued to
individuals who have proven themselves to be well behaved citizens –
those have not used the web for illegal downloads, hacking, or God
forbid – criticizing officialdom. The Great Firewall of China would be
implemented globally – killing off all those annoying alternative media
websites and blogs and allowing the mainstream media to reclaim its
audience share.

The problem with Hillis’ argument is that many of the
threats he cites as a justification for creating a new
government-controlled ‘hygienic’ Internet 2 were created by the same
military-industrial complex that would benefit from the new system.

As we have documented,
the last five major computer viruses – Stuxnet, Flame, SP, SPE and IP –
were all most likely the work of US and Israeli intelligence services.

Hillis and his peers should be more sophisticated about
denigrating the old Internet and calling for a new “emergency” Internet 2
given that this would represent a perfect opportunity for those who have not hidden their agenda to destroy free speech on the world wide web in moving us closer to a draconian, onerous Chinese-style Internet.

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[edwardecl]

Isn't there already software to do exactly what he is describing called VPN's, unless someone somehow manaages to compromise every router on the planet they should work and be secure if set up properly.

And people do have their own international network links which can have their own protocols if they want, it's called satellite uplinks, if you are talking about existing systems then you would have to replace every router on the planet or at least the backbone to support custom network stacks.

Probably just cheaper to get satellite uplinks for critical systems if they are that bothered. No need for anything as complicated as the internet. Hell you could even just use the mobile phone network.

[drunk]

Just a G*Y

[dcs18]

Just a G*Y

LOL, no - I don't feel Ambrocious is a G*Y. :lol:

[drunk]

LOOOL :lol: i meant " Danny Hillis " from the article - internet disaster -

[bob92132]

what a retard desperate for attention.

the internet protocols are designed so that a region of the world could undergo a nuclear attack and undergo complete destruction - and your packets would start automatically start re-routing from the other side of the globe from a different link.

routers dynamically adapt to find whatever route they can to your destination.

i.e., if the lines over the pacific go down - then your packets automatically start going over the atlantic.