Monday, April 07, 2008

10 Ways the Internet (As We Know It) Will Die - GigaOM

Posted by AT&EE Staff

10 Ways the Internet (As We Know It) Will Die - GigaOM

 

We often think of the Internet as a platform for unfettered global communication, where information flows freely, innovators can launch new applications at will, and everyone can have a voice. But it’s unlikely that our children’s Internet will look anything like what we have now.

 

How might the Internet as we know it die? Here are 10 possibilities.

 

1) Someone subverts the Domain Name Service. The Internet relies on DNS. But if someone broke — or worse, subverted — the fundamental way in which we find web sites, we wouldn’t trust URLs any more. Phishing would be easy. Own the DNS and you own the Internet.

 

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