On 9 Oct 2012, at 11:40, Ben Bloomberg <b...@mit.edu> wrote: > What will be interesting to see is whether this whole "facebook" thing > will evolve like AOL, compuserve, etc...
That's what I hope. But with ever more companies thinking they have to tie into Facebook, use Facebook login as credentials instead of creating accounts on their own servers, etc. that's progressively more difficult. > Already, many people are working on distributed social networking. > Where the AOL walled garden could completely track you and was full of > ads, eventually people began to use POP, IMAP and SMTP in other > programs for email. Now there are protocols and services like diaspora > and tent.io hoping to do the same thing for social networking. P2P is the way to go to destroy all these internet monopolies... We need a bazaar, not mega-malls. > As far as NAT and centralized services go, people my age still host > their own boxes. NAT doesn't really stop that. The fact is most > households still have their own public IP. Well, of course, they must have a public IP. But usually assigned by DHCP, constantly changing, etc. > That's sufficient to get just about anything you need. If you're willing to rely yet again on third parties, like DynDNS, Apple's "Back to my Mac", etc. > IPV6 is coming, but its not going to > change too much (in my opinion) because people are now afraid of the > open web. That's where you get attacked and can't secure any > communication. It's easier to have your own kingdom behind NAT where > you don't need to worry about running Samba (or windows boxes for that > matter). It's like each household becomes its own datacenter. That's the misconception that NAT = Firewall. NAT naturally acts like a firewall against unsophisticated attacks, but it gives a false sense of security, because there are plenty of ways around it, if need be. A good, well-configured Firewall is a must, with or without NAT. Ronald _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
