Can we repair a net that's full of holes?
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1681290,00.html
John Naugton
Sunday January 8, 2006
The Observer
Here's a thought to ponder on a cold January morning: the internet is
broken. Not in the sense that emails are not getting through or web
pages are refusing to load, but that the system's architecture is no
longer adequate for the pressures to which it is now being subjected.
Some symptoms are already visible and acute: in the way spam clogs the
arteries of the system; in the increasing malevolence of malware -
viruses, worms and trojans, which cause untold havoc; in the flakiness
and unreliability of certain types of applications (streaming video,
for example), and in the increasing insecurity of data transmitted or
stored online.
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