[Fwd: Multiple Internets]

[Ted Smith]

In an effort to re-seed discussion about cypherpunk topics I'll be
reposting old threads from the cypherpunks list in a rough "this day in
cpunks" effort. 

In this mail, John Young analyzes the subclasses of "the internet" as a
user might see. 

Optional discussion questions:

      * How has this dichotomy survived the intervening half-decade?
      * Taxonomies sometimes afford conception of novel categories; the
        original periodic table was mostly empty, not-filled with
        elements yet to be discovered. What internets can we conceive of
        that do not presently exist?


-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: John Young <jya at pipeline.com>
> To: cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net
> Subject: Multiple Internets
> Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:01:38 -0500
> Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9
> 
>  > i say again:
>  > twitter is ruining the internets...
> 
> I agree, but I think it's highlighting an underlying issue that we've
> been letting the wrong sort of people on the internet for a long time.
> I tend to think that if this type of people ends up sticking to the
> world of twitter and facebook and co, then we can safely caution them
> off and just ignore them at large, so for that purpose it works well
> 
> ------
> 
> Multiple, discrete internets are coming into play, perhaps have always
> existed.
> 
> First, the known internets, utilizing ubiquitious access logging which
> under guise of administration allows universal spying:
> 
> 1. The internet run by operators of the overall background system
> which most users know little about or care.
> 
> 2 The open policing apparatus of the overall system run by governments
> and their contractors and cooperating non-profits.
> 
> 3. The commercial internet providing services or products for pay.
> 
> 4. The non-profit, open-source, volunteer internet providing services
> or products at no cost or for donations.
> 
> 5. The closed sub-internets, mil-gov classified, SCADA, restricted
> and special purpose networks used by operators and administrators of
> backbones, nodes, satellite, cable, wired and wireless systems,
> 
> Second, the unknown internets, with or without evident access logging:
> 
> 6. The covert policing and spying internet which watches, logs,
> mucks around, runs stings, causes accidents and shut-downs, cuts
> cables, runs surprise tests and attacks, and keeps alive the demand
> for covert oversight of all the known others.
> 
> 7. The covert internets which hide among all the others, or try to
> subject to discovery by 6.
> 
> 8. The evanescent internets which are set up, used and disappear
> quickly, openly or covertly, subject to 6.
> 
> 9. The wayward and waylaid internets which cannot be identified:
> rogues, experiments, mistakes, erratic systems, unexpected
> glitches and consequences, acts of nature, forgotten protocols,
> inept code, destructive code, lost access techniques, death
> of the perpetrators.
> 
> 10. Internets of combinations, hybrids, deceptions, ploys and
> warfare among 1-9.

-- 
Sent from Ubuntu
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