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internetty lesson

09:07 Wednesday 26 July 2017 JST

Lesson at Zavas featured a high level discussion of two different peering arrangements (p2p vs centralized) and the concept of protocols. I was planning to talk about Bitcoin, but the word "peer" in the whitepaper started the discussion we ended up having.

I had a distinct sense of inadequacy when describing layers of protocols that make up the internet, but that may be because when I hear the phrase "the internet" in my mind, my mind replies with "the internet is made of cats, the internet is made of cats, cats! cats! cats!" before I can think of anything else.

Even so, I explained how centralized sites are targets for attack and how they are "free" because they can sell our data. I listed bittorrent, tor, mumble, pgp, gpg as peer to peer protocols. I guess SMTP is one as well. Not sure about Mumble, actually.

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