Of possible interest: ( please forgive cross posting)
Please join us next Tuesday 1/27 in Palo Alto for the next event in the
Institute for the Future's Second Curve Internet (Insurgent Internet)
Speaker Series
What should Version 2 of the Internet look like? ,And how should we get
there?
IFTF Second Curve Internet Speaker Series with Peter Eckersley—January
27, 2015
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The Internet's core protocols—TCP, IP, DNS, HTTP, HTTPS—have served us
very well for the past twenty to thirty years. But all of these
protocols have limitations that are beginning to bite us in various
ways. Because of these limitation, our global network is less secure,
less reliable, and harder to innovate with.
In this talk, EFF Technology Projects Director Peter Eckersley will give
a tour of those limitations, and review some of the current efforts to
upgrade the Internet's protocols to fix them.
This includes the newly announced Let's Encrypt certificate authority,
which EFF is working on with Mozilla, Cisco, and Akamai, that aims to
make HTTPS free and ubiquitous. It also includes an analysis of
essential features of other efforts to upgrade TCP, IP, and DNS such as
IPv6, DNSSEC, and QUIC, and the difficulties that Internet engineers
face when they try to change the protocols used by a planet-wide network.
In IFTF's new Second Curve Internet Speaker Series, we explore the
critical elements necessary to reinvent the Internet, gathering leading
minds together with IFTF’s deep experience thinking about technology and
the ways of communicating, coordinating, and organizing in the changing
world around us.
Join us for our January event featuring Peter Eckersley!
Peter Eckersley is Technology Projects Director for the Electronic
Frontier Foundation. He leads a team of technologists who watch for
technologies that, by accident or design, pose a risk to computer users'
freedoms—and then look for ways to fix them. They write code to make the
Internet more secure, more open, and safer against surveillance and
censorship. They explain gadgets to lawyers and policymakers, and law
and policy to gadgets.
Peter's work at EFF has included privacy and security projects such as
Panopticlick, HTTPS Everywhere, SSDI, and the SSL Observatory; helping
to launch a movement for open wireless networks; fighting to keep modern
computing platforms open; and running the first controlled tests to
confirm that Comcast was using forged reset packets to interfere with
P2P protocols.
Peter holds a PhD in computer science and law from the University of
Melbourne; his research focused on the practicality and desirability of
using alternative compensation systems to legalize P2P file sharing and
similar distribution tools while still paying authors and artists for
their work. He is an affiliate of the Center for International Security
and Cooperation at Stanford University.
Event Details
DATE: January 27, 2015
TIME: 6-8pm
LOCATION: Institute for the Future, 201 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto,
California 94301
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By the way - if you missed the first two events in the series: with Cory
Doctorow and David P. Reed, The Videos are online here:
Redesigns for a Broken Internet - Cory Doctorow [Video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J_9EFGFR-Y
"The Internet's broken and that's bad news, because everything we do
today involves the Internet and everything we'll do tomorrow will
require it. But governments and corporations see the net, variously, as
a perfect surveillance tool, a perfect pornography distribution tool, or
a perfect video on demand tool—not as the nervous system of the 21st
century. Time's running out. Architecture is politics. The changes we're
making to the net today will prefigure the future our children and their
children will thrive in—or suffer under."
Cooperate and Thrive, or Divide and Conquer? David P. Reed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RAnHWPS-Iw
"You never step into the same river twice. So it is with the Internet.
The Internet transcends any particular physical devices, any particular
services, country boundaries etc. But today it remains a collection of
rivers, with firm banks, a few major sources, and a vast
undifferentiated ocean of "consumers."
The Internet has begun to encompass the air around us. That is, almost
all of us in the West now carry the Internet with us, maintaining
constant connections to the rivers, attempting to create "rivers" in the
sky. Technically, rivers in the sky makes no sense at all. What will the
next phase of the Internet look like? How will it be built?
In this talk we will focus on two major technology issues that challenge
the future evolution of the Internet—radio networking architecture and
proximate interaction. In each, the core principles that helped the
Internet succeed are being discarded. What will happen?"
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