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Old 09-24-2018, 04:01 PM   #38
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Default Re: Setting Ideas: Why Would a Society turn away from the Internet?

If a malcontent person got a hold of the "NSA backdoor" (or whichever three letter agency you like) to some of the backbone infrastructure of the internet and suddenly took it over with catastrophic effects, it'd be easy to understand slow adoption of the internet replacement.

Imagine that the "internet 2" adopts many of the security proposals that have been circulating for decades and so is a bit less convenient but much "stronger" in that many kinds of attacks are more difficult or virtually impossible. What isn't likely to change is the presence of software and hardware bugs, and the entire catastrophic takeover might this time merely be a catastrophic shutdown.

After the second incident, all access to the national network requires using the smart-card embedded in your citizen ID, and everything you do is automatically recorded and run through massive-data analytics to find anomalies and thought crime. People still use their networked phones, but a huge portion of the internet sees a continual decline into eventual oblivion.
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