[ga] Vint Cerf Says It's Every Machine For Itself

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Isn't this lovely! < sarcasm intended >  However I
think Vint has it at least half right.  The real difference in
my take is that the "overnet for commercial and business
use" as Vint describes it is the true untrusted portion.
Only they have the marketing strength to sell themselves
as the ones to be trusted, much like Leman Bros, Bear
Stearns, WAMU, Fanny Mea, Freddy Mac, soon to be
Merryl Lynch, Worldcom/con, ect., ect.  Yeah right!  >:(

  But Vint is right that a two tier Internet will never be good
for ecommerce.

  Nice bit of spin here Vint, but no cigar here.  Maybe next
time...  >:)

All, see:

http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/Hugh Pickens writes "The Guardian 
has an interesting story on Vint Cerf, the 'father of the internet,' 
in which he says
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/oct/02/interviews.internet
there's no silver bullet for scammers, spammers and criminals running
zombie networks and porn-to-porn file swapping because 'the internet 
was designed that way.' Cerf adds, 'Like every medium, the internet 
can be abused. When we think about it, we can commit fraud locally and
internationally using the telephone system and postal service.' However,
Cerf is also convinced that it's the internet's openness in allowing
people with new ideas to do their thing without getting anyone's
permission that is the main source of its power, and he is against the
idea of a two-tier internet with a trusted, controlled 'overnet' for
commercial and business use, and an 'undernet' where anything goes. 
'My bias right now tends to be "It's every man for himself" you need 
to be suspicious whether you're inside the trusted cloud or not, and 
when it fails, the house of cards tends to collapse.'"

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