Privacy-first Internet! Are we there yet?

[akeegan]

https://medium.com/elixxir/a-letter-from-our-founder-4f48ffba28fe

This article touches on a paper written in 1985 about the future of the internet being privacy focused. Security without identification is ideal but is it possible?

[rmilly]

I go back and forth about whether we will actually get to it. Once someone figures a way around the system that is already in place I think people will start to migrate.

Needs to be simple and easy enough to understand at elementary level. that's truly what adoption will need to take place

[Spendulus]

https://medium.com/elixxir/a-letter-from-our-founder-4f48ffba28fe

This article touches on a paper written in 1985 about the future of the internet being privacy focused. Security without identification is ideal but is it possible?

You like to an article about privacy, but clicking the link brings THIS:

Pardon the interruption.

We’ve seen you here before. Let’s make things official.

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[/i]
How about, I can't take your question seriously under these circumstances?

[r1s2g3]

https://medium.com/elixxir/a-letter-from-our-founder-4f48ffba28fe

This article touches on a paper written in 1985 about the future of the internet being privacy focused. Security without identification is ideal but is it possible?

You like to an article about privacy, but clicking the link brings THIS:

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[/i]
How about, I can't take your question seriously under these circumstances?

You are acting like an idiot here, Author have no control on "Medium" policies .

@OP, What look impossible/improbable today sometimes become available and abundant in next decade.
I am really impressed by David Chaum's credential and let see what he bring in with "Elixxir" .

[jjbanks994]

https://medium.com/elixxir/a-letter-from-our-founder-4f48ffba28fe

This article touches on a paper written in 1985 about the future of the internet being privacy focused. Security without identification is ideal but is it possible?

You like to an article about privacy, but clicking the link brings THIS:

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[/i]
How about, I can't take your question seriously under these circumstances?

Was this your april fools joke?

[BADecker]

IPFS is the Distributed Web
A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol
to make the web faster, safer, and more open.

https://ipfs.io/

Becoming what Maidsafe tried to be - https://maidsafe.net/.

[Spendulus]

https://medium.com/elixxir/a-letter-from-our-founder-4f48ffba28fe

This article touches on a paper written in 1985 about the future of the internet being privacy focused. Security without identification is ideal but is it possible?

You like to an article about privacy, but clicking the link brings THIS:

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[/i]
How about, I can't take your question seriously under these circumstances?

Was this your april fools joke?

No, afraid it wasn't.

TO READ THE ARTICLE YOU AGREE TO BE SPAMMED AT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS.

...
You are acting like an idiot here, Author have no control on "Medium" policies .
...

So to read an article about privacy, we have to agree to give away privacy?

Are you the fucking idiot?

[Quickseller]

I do have very serious concerns about modern major tech companies, however I believe the below is relevant:

If they provide services/benefit that exceed these privacy intrusions, they should be free to continue using these platforms. The selling point of giving up private information is doing so allows the platforms to display ads relevant to the end user, and can otherwise provide useful information to the end user. [...] I don't think anyone should be forced to have certain levels of privacy if they don't want privacy, or if they believe the benefits of of giving up certain information outweigh the value of privacy. This is not to say that people should be disallowed from having privacy if that is what they want.

[...]

[itrus]

Not yet. People tried it.

• They introduced TOR for user privacy still it's centralized but protects user identity.
• Torrents for file sharing. It's going well.
• And now Blockchain for totally Decentralized internet. Have to wait for it to see the results.

[Spendulus]

I do have very serious concerns about modern major tech companies, however I believe the below is relevant:

If they provide services/benefit that exceed these privacy intrusions, they should be free to continue using these platforms. The selling point of giving up private information is doing so allows the platforms to display ads relevant to the end user, and can otherwise provide useful information to the end user. ....

What the company does with your info does not have to be what they claim they do with your info.

[Spendulus]

https://medium.com/elixxir/a-letter-from-our-founder-4f48ffba28fe

This article touches on a paper written in 1985 about the future of the internet being privacy focused. Security without identification is ideal but is it possible?

Here is the paper from 1985 not going through a privacy-wall directly contrary to the ideals of the writer.

https://www.chaum.com/publications/Security_Wthout_Identification.html

[Artemis3]

Not yet. People tried it.

• They introduced TOR for user privacy still it's centralized but protects user identity.
• Torrents for file sharing. It's going well.
• And now Blockchain for totally Decentralized internet. Have to wait for it to see the results.

Actually you can host your own web page at home, and serve it thru tor as a so called "hidden service" (.onion address). It is quite safe. Torrents, not so much. Blockchain is a type of decentralized unalterable write only database, its not exactly an "internet replacement", but quite useful.