The Internet is Broken in Class Assignment

HTM 304
Fang Fang
27 November 2007

The Internet is Broken in Class Assignment

1. According to David Clark security issues is the basic flaw of the current internet design. He references White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke notion of the United States vulnerability to a massive attack on the current internet design. Essentially we are at the “forbearance” of the hackers.

2. Nowadays, the basic design flaw has become a much bigger issue compared to the past because of all of the patches that have been employed to fix errors. According to the article the patches will create a “brittle” system and there will be “a dead end.”

3. The saying “humans are good at ignoring problems” means in my own words that humans see what they want to see. The average person wants to see the good, not the bad, and definitely not the ugly. Millions of Americans and others around the world do not care enough about the critically flawed Internet to change it. Essentially, humans are prolonging the inevitable.

4. July 2005, Pew Internet reported 43% of U.S. Internet users have reported having spyware or adware on their computers merely by visiting websites.

We need a new Internet! Woo hoo! That is great news (job security) for HTM majors.

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