How do you cut online crime, tackle child pornography, halt crippling viruses and get rid of spam? The answers could lie in a £200m successor to the internet that computer experts are already referring to as the next rendition of the virtual world. Researchers in the US want at least $350m (£175m) to build the Global Environment for Network Innovations (Geni), touted by some as the possible replacement for today's internet. In Europe, similar projects are under way as part of the EU's Future and Internet Research (Fire) programme, which is expected to cost at least £27m.
With online crime rising and traffic increasing rapidly, some academics believe it is time to have a serious discussion about what succeeds today's internet. "There's a real need to have better identity management, to declare your age and to know that when you're talking to, say, Barclays bank, that you're really doing so," said Jonathan Zittrain, professor of internet governance and regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute.
At the moment we are still using very clumsy methods to approach such problems. The result: last year alone, identity theft and online fraud cost British victims an estimated £414m, while one recent report claimed 93% of all email sent from the UK was spam. The backers of Geni are hoping that it can find answers to problems like this. It is supported by America's National Science Foundation and has a timescale of 10-15 years.
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With online crime rising and traffic increasing rapidly, some academics believe it is time to have a serious discussion about what succeeds today's internet. "There's a real need to have better identity management, to declare your age and to know that when you're talking to, say, Barclays bank, that you're really doing so," said Jonathan Zittrain, professor of internet governance and regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute.
At the moment we are still using very clumsy methods to approach such problems. The result: last year alone, identity theft and online fraud cost British victims an estimated £414m, while one recent report claimed 93% of all email sent from the UK was spam. The backers of Geni are hoping that it can find answers to problems like this. It is supported by America's National Science Foundation and has a timescale of 10-15 years.
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I will feel generally better about trusting everything I find online, and I am sure that it will be UNHACKABLE and my identity will be kept safe from criminals that wont possibly be smart enough to circumvent these new security mesures.
THE INTERNET IS MADE UP OF PEOPLE, AND PEOPLE LIE, CHEAT AND STEAL FROM EACH OTHER!!! No new net will stop people from figuring out how skrew others. No security system is uncompremisable.
The scarey part will be that giving every web user an identity will mean a level of control from authoritys (you know, the wizards) that goes against everything the web has become. They may even try to use web identity's to enforce web law's. NOW imagine if your online identity is stolen!
And that's exactly the idea: both companies and governments were, for the most part, late. Now they all want a second oportunity to get a piece of the cake.
Wouldn't governments and RIAA-alike organizations love the idea of mandatory IDs to track users?
Wouldn't tech companies (MS?) love to trojanize the new internet with their IP?
Internet, as of now, is as free as it can possibly get, with all the pros and cons.
so i assume you would end up having no internet at all. it wont be like... do you want web 1.0 or 2.0?
giving every1 a unique ID would be exactly what would people scare off from doing lots of stuff, not just illegal stuff, but maybe things they usually use the internet for because of its anonymity capabilities to live a rather "shameless" life there, if you know what i mean.
Glassed Silver:mac
so i assume you would end up having no internet at all. it wont be like... do you want web 1.0 or 2.0?
giving every1 a unique ID would be exactly what would people scare off from doing lots of stuff, not just illegal stuff, but maybe things they usually use the internet for because of its anonymity capabilities to live a rather "shameless" life there, if you know what i mean.
Glassed Silver:mac
If Internet 2 turns out how these researchers suggest, then there will still be plenty of demand for the original Internet.
It may cost a lot more and have a lower demand, but people would still pay to use it, just as people still use ham radio.
For that reason, they will not simply abandon it. Abandoning the world's greatest resource of information would be daft.
Most people in the world don't have broadband connections or connections at all, which means this "true Web 2.0" would only be accessible by a small minority of computer users.
Add into the equation an impossible task of fighting fraud, pornography, etc. and you're left with a $350-400million dollar waste of time and energy.
The internet is FINE as it is for the next ten to twenty years - I can't really imagine something radically new or different coming out and being accepted by all before then.
all i can see in this is more filtering methods, less freedom and a freaking lot more of money to pay for it... "Get Internet 2.0 for just 120 bucks a month!!!" Yea... as i said, my ass...
hope this flops big time before it is even applied to real world >.<
Glassed Silver:mac
edit: / addition:
talking about phishing? well... only total noob still get compromised, so hell, why take the effort for them to watch out more and maybe attend an internet learning course? there are courses for children, young people, old people, granpas and granmas...
hell, we don't let people drive a car without a license, i think if you're unsecure in the internet - as in hav viruses you help spreading em often, so yes you also harm others, just like in traffic on the streets... hell be grateful you dont have to have a license, but dont make the internet idiot safe, because it will never be and just make the noobs in risk think they are safe... and get ripped even more.
this is 100% internet controlling and filtering crap, and that can suck my ****
honestly im not in for swearing usually, but this is just making me so pi**ed off!
Last edited by Glassed Silver on 01 Aug 2007 - 13:49
You don't.
with no complaints from end users. I guess it's good that someone is
planning for a new Internet, for when this old one wears out! ;-)
Spammers could be shut down in an instant, if the Internic, and
their cohorts put their heads together, and closed down the
criminals IP addresses, and kicked all porn sites to their own
domain, which could be filtered.
Sadly most Governments are are more concerned about shutting
down personal freedom and free speech. Porn and Criminals generate
enormous amounts of money, and BIG GOVERNMENT.
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