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From the Ted Talk by Danny Hillis: The Internet could crash. We need a Plan B

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In fact, it was so successful that there's no way that these days you could make a book like this. My rough calculation is it would be about 25 miles thick. But, of course, you couldn't do it, because we don't know the names of all the people with Internet or email addresses, and even if we did know their names, I'm pretty sure that they would not want their name, adserds and telephone nbumer published to everyone.

So the fact is that there's a lot of bad guys on the ientnert these days, and so we dealt with that by making walled cimnimuotes, suecre subnetworks, VPNs, little things that aren't really the Internet but are made out of the same building bokcls, but we're still basically building it out of those same building blocks with those same assumptions of trust. And that mneas that it's vulnerable to certain kinds of mistakes that can happen, or certain kinds of deliberate aactkts, but even the mistakes can be bad.

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In fact, it was so successful that there's no way that these days you could make a book like this. My rough calculation is it would be about 25 miles thick. But, of course, you couldn't do it, because we don't know the names of all the people with Internet or email addresses, and even if we did know their names, I'm pretty sure that they would not want their name, _______ and telephone ______ published to everyone.

So the fact is that there's a lot of bad guys on the ________ these days, and so we dealt with that by making walled ___________, ______ subnetworks, VPNs, little things that aren't really the Internet but are made out of the same building ______, but we're still basically building it out of those same building blocks with those same assumptions of trust. And that _____ that it's vulnerable to certain kinds of mistakes that can happen, or certain kinds of deliberate _______, but even the mistakes can be bad.

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  2. blocks
  3. means
  4. communities
  5. attacks
  6. number
  7. address
  8. internet

Original Text


In fact, it was so successful that there's no way that these days you could make a book like this. My rough calculation is it would be about 25 miles thick. But, of course, you couldn't do it, because we don't know the names of all the people with Internet or email addresses, and even if we did know their names, I'm pretty sure that they would not want their name, address and telephone number published to everyone.

So the fact is that there's a lot of bad guys on the Internet these days, and so we dealt with that by making walled communities, secure subnetworks, VPNs, little things that aren't really the Internet but are made out of the same building blocks, but we're still basically building it out of those same building blocks with those same assumptions of trust. And that means that it's vulnerable to certain kinds of mistakes that can happen, or certain kinds of deliberate attacks, but even the mistakes can be bad.

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