Internet Redux
May 20, 2010
A couple weeks ago web security guru Barrett Lyon published a great piece about Internet Protocol (IP). IP is basically the way the Internet works, a set of rules for communicating information from one machine to another. Lyon's argument – echoed by IP developer Vint Cerf – is that IP was and indeed still is an experiment, never intended to become "the infrastructure for all of society."
Lyon offers a number of reasons for this conclusion, ranging from security and privacy to routing intelligence and "enculturation". It's a really interesting essay (and provides a great primer for tech journalist Joseph Menn's recent book Fatal System Error, a freaky tour through modern cybercrime in which Lyon prominently features).
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