Name: Anonymous 2015-07-24 8:13
We live in an advanced age. We are connected conveniently via the internet. You can talk to any of your friends anywhere in the world and they'll be alerted wherever they are via their smartphones with data plans. I can watch a movie in the middle of a lake over the internet. I can share files with friends. We can share revisions and work concurrently by uploading and downloading files via a web interface. People only literate enough to navigate pretty web sites are able to fully exploit today's technology for professional use and entertainment. The answer to any question that may occur to them is a few clicks, keystokes, or touchscreen presses away. However, unless drastic steps are taken by the user, all of the above leak the entire human computer interaction to centralized points. All files shared are in the clear. They are indexed and sometimes tracking fingerprints are inserted into them. Cell phone triangulation tracks users as they travel physically in the world. Media viewing history is kept and creates a profile of the user. Everyone is watched. In order to use the machine, you must be watched. To avoid being watched by the machine is to cut out revenue of corporations. Government agencies call the collective act of avoiding being watched ``going dark'', and ominously warn of its danger. Insurance companies still hunger for more of your data. Advertisers' bellies are still rumbling for whatever they can use to better predict the probability of you buying a can of pepsi given various weather conditions. There's no sign of any of it stopping. The more they have, the more they want. How can we return the internet to its original dream? How do we get our packet switching network back, where packets are relayed from point A to point B, and not stored indefinitely at point C?