We live in a house of cards. I hope that eventually people in power realize this. However, their incentive structures do not seem to be a forcing function for that eventuality.

I have been thinking about this a lot lately. What would be a tweak that might improve this situation?

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sznio 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not exactly for this situation, but I've been thinking about distributed caching of web content.

Even if a website is down, someone somewhere most likely has it cached. Why can't I read it from their cache? If I'm trying to reach a static image file, why do I have to get it from the source?

I guess I want torrent DHT for the web.

	▲	consumer451 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That is genuinely interesting. But, let's put all "this nerd talk" into terms that someone in the average C-suite could understand. How can C-suite stock RSU/comp/etc be tweaked to make them give a crap about this, or security? --- Decades ago, I was a teenager and I realized that going to fancy hotel bars was really interesting. I looked old enough, and I was dressed well. This was in Seattle. I once overheard a low-level cellular company exec/engineer complain about how he had to climb a tower, and check the radiation levels (yes non-ionizing). But this was a low level exec, who had to take responsibility. He joked about how while checking a building on cap hill, he waved his wand above his head, and when he heard the beeps... he noped tf out. He said that it sucked that he had to do that, and sign-off. That is actually cool, and real engineering/responsibility at the executive level. Can we please get more of that type of thing?

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mistercheph 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Using p2p or self hosted, and accepting the temporary tradeoffs of no network effects.