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Name: Michael Skinner
From: Oklahoma
Bio: I am a web developer
Area of Expertise: Technology Developer/Administrator
Topic: Information Infrastructure
Headline: Mr. Smith Goes to Secure, Locked Down Internet
Nutshell: All software, e-mail, and networked traffic will be cryptographically encoded. There will be no anonymity.
Vision:The internet will cease to be anonymous. Authorities will know right away exactly where anything originates whether that something is a virus, spam, or legimate communcation.
Every piece of software, all email, and all networks will be encoded with unbreakable, quantum-based cryptographic codes. Most of the worlds bad actors will be arrested.
What will be left will be a place where a little guy can speak a big idea into the internet ether and get credit for it. On the other hand, the bad guys will find a way to use disposable computers, disposable software and even disposable networks. Fortunately, cost will inhibit this.
And good police work will still catch the bad guys.
Date Submitted: November 11, 2004
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