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PdF 2011 | Eben Moglen: The alternate net we need, and how we can build it ourselves

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Eben Moglen's 2011 Personal Democracy Forum talk on the loss of anonymity and privacy on the internet. He proposes building an alternative net of personal servers, the idea behind FreedomBox.

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Cited in privacy and surveillance threads as an early argument for personal servers and decentralization.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2011–2023

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maeon3 · 2011-07 · Recommendation

The power of the internet comes from anonymity, Eben Moglen talks about how the internet is going to lose what made it great when you are unable to connect to it without an authority tracking your every query, every click and every mouse rollover: [VIDEO]

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morphle · 2023-01 · Reference

Can You Trust Your Computer? [LINK] Eben Moglen: The alternate net we need, and how we can build it ourselves: [VIDEO]

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ivan_ah · 2013-06 · Reference

The modern version of that is "it's just the metadata." I don't think legislation is the solution to this though. The spying is done because it //can// be done. By using a web application administered by somebody else you have implicitly given them your access logs. The right solution is more along the lines of bringing the power home[1], or friendly neighborhood colocation locations. If the Internet has 1M servers, they can monitor transmission at the large ones. If the Internet had 1B servers on it, they wouldn't be able to handle. [1] Talk by Eben Moglen about the Feedombox: [VIDEO]

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