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by 127361
915 days ago
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However so many sites are using CloudFlare and other DDoS prevention and CDN services. I'm sure the NSA has fiber taps (beam splitters) at the point where the data travels unencrypted on the internal datacenter network. CloudFlare itself might not even be aware of the taps. Or maybe only a few select employees know about it. I think the solution to these problems is to reduce dependence on the Internet. It's now possible to torrent an entire library worth of books and have it all on your personal computer at home. 20TB HDDs are readily available, and constantly getting cheaper. Also check out https://reddit.com/r/DataHoarder. And we have local AI models, again these do not need the Internet to function. |
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Uh, I thought the concern is about communications (email, IM, etc), not about content consumption. Communications can't be replaced with some static archives.
I doubt any TLA cares if I read Python or Rust documentation, or if I watched Oppenheimer, or Barbie, or both. If they do - well, it's their loss, because such data is absolutely worthless at scale, as repeatedly demonstrated by the ad industry failing to extract any meaning from all the Big Data(tm) they hoard. And if they would somehow get interested in me personally - I don't think having an offline Wikipedia copy would help me any much.
The solution is to encrypt and authenticate every single byte transferred, end-to-end, with strongest known algorithms. And, well, some legislative action too.