Hei, jeg prøver å skrive en liten tekst om det åpne internettet. Men før jeg legger den ut på bloggen vil jeg gjerne vite om den duger. Den trenger selvsagt ikke være perfekt, og noe geni er jeg ikke. Men er det noe som helst fornuft i det jeg jeg skriver? Jeg skriver på engelsk

"The end of the open internet?
In his book The Future of the Internet and How to Stop it (2008) Jonathan Zittrain feared the return of what he called "closed systems". Bot nets and viruses were the great threats in 2008, and Zittrain saw how the number of viruses and the level of organized crime online were spiraling out of control. This was before the debates about Edward Snowden, surveillance and fake news.

His prediction rings ever more true. Nation states have even reacted by setting up national firewalls, which, security services claim, allow them to protect their own citizens from organized crime, hacking and propaganda directed from countries such as China, Russia and Iran. The downside of this new surveillance is that all our activities online, what we search for, what we think, what our sexual prefrences are; everything is now within the reach of the state. Authoritarian regimes have used this exact strategy, but for other reasons. They saw the internet as such a threat that they sectioned off their little piece of it, either partially like China and Iran or completly like North Korea. But both democracies and authoritarian states needed to monitor opinion within their borders.

Private citizens have fought back against surveillance by using VPN, TOR or similar networks. Some creative file sharers even set up their own alternative network using radiowaves. It is all about being able to connect without becoming vulnarable at the same time.

Bulk downloading could be one solution. If you downloaded a whole website, rather than selected parts of it, and then went offline, your activities on that site would remain hidden. As the storage capacity for PCs increase, we may soon see home networks in which wikipedia and many other sites are available offline, and in which all contact with the outside internet is carefully protected by VPN and other masking techniques.

The internet will be a layered, like an onion. At the center is your computer, outside that is your home network, outside that a regional network, then a national network. On the very shell of the onion, you would find the open net, where the threat level would be highest. But between each layer there will in the future be either a firewall, or some other invisible vetting mechanism before you move on to the next level. A digital customs officer.

In many ways this is the opposite of a cloud driven society. Cloud storage is not safe. Your children's snapchat images, your emails, your health records, they are all constantly exposed to hacking. In stead, information may be stored in each layer of the internet, the closer to you, the better. Only information that we do not care about may be pushed up into the international cloud.

In the early days of the internet there were hopes that the web would free the world. However, traditional power structures started to reassert themselves in the virtual world. First through the domination of a few mega companies, and now through the introduction of national firewalls run by the state."