<story><title>Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed</title><url>https://httptoolkit.com/blog/apple-private-access-tokens-attestation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WeylandYutani</author><text>The US militia that everyone talks about in relation to the 2nd amendment weren&amp;#x27;t meant to protect the US from Canada. It was in response to a feared slave uprising from within.</text></item><item><author>bamfly</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>&amp;gt; Internet anarchists getting excited about the prospect of forking the Internet feels a lot like when a lot of preppies got excited about the potential breakdown of society when Covid hit.
&amp;gt; “Finally I can put all my skills to the test, which people have been teasing me about for so long.”&lt;p&gt;Veering offtopic a little, but your comment reminded me, hilariously, that after Stay-At-Home was mandated, my older, &amp;quot;prepper&amp;quot; friends and acquaintances were generally the first to crack and start complaining on Facebook about unfair it was that they were expected to just stay home in their bunkers and not go to bars and shop for their khakis. So much for the rugged self-reliance they loved to crow about!&lt;p&gt;I can imagine the Internet Anarchists behaving the same way. They&amp;#x27;ll be, in reality, the first to sign up for the AmazoGoogoMetaAppleInternet so they can keep posting to Social Media and doing their online shopping.</text></item><item><author>Jolter</author><text>Internet anarchists getting excited about the prospect of forking the Internet feels a lot like when a lot of preppers got excited about the potential breakdown of society when Covid hit.&lt;p&gt;“Finally I can put all my skills to the test, which people have been teasing me about for so long.”&lt;p&gt;In both cases, this attitude has the problem that they ignore the vast majority of people who would suffer under the new order. Very few people would find their way out of the corporate walled gardens and into the free information superhighway.</text></item><item><author>toyg</author><text>This might be where the internet really gets forked, as it&amp;#x27;s been predicted over and over since the &amp;#x27;90s.&lt;p&gt;On one side, we&amp;#x27;ll have a &amp;quot;clean&amp;quot;, authority-sanctioned &amp;quot;corpweb&amp;quot;, where everyone is ID&amp;#x27;ed to the wazoo; on the other, a more casual &amp;quot;greynet&amp;quot; galaxy of porn and decentralized communities will likely emerge, once all tinkerers get pushed out of corpnet. It could be an interesting opportunity to reboot a few long-lost dreams.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonfw</author><text>The constitution was a set of principles meant to extend beyond the times they were written in.&lt;p&gt;As flawed as the founding fathers were, they were probably smart enough to understand that the nature of the threats the country would face were likely to evolve over time.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed</title><url>https://httptoolkit.com/blog/apple-private-access-tokens-attestation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WeylandYutani</author><text>The US militia that everyone talks about in relation to the 2nd amendment weren&amp;#x27;t meant to protect the US from Canada. It was in response to a feared slave uprising from within.</text></item><item><author>bamfly</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>&amp;gt; Internet anarchists getting excited about the prospect of forking the Internet feels a lot like when a lot of preppies got excited about the potential breakdown of society when Covid hit.
&amp;gt; “Finally I can put all my skills to the test, which people have been teasing me about for so long.”&lt;p&gt;Veering offtopic a little, but your comment reminded me, hilariously, that after Stay-At-Home was mandated, my older, &amp;quot;prepper&amp;quot; friends and acquaintances were generally the first to crack and start complaining on Facebook about unfair it was that they were expected to just stay home in their bunkers and not go to bars and shop for their khakis. So much for the rugged self-reliance they loved to crow about!&lt;p&gt;I can imagine the Internet Anarchists behaving the same way. They&amp;#x27;ll be, in reality, the first to sign up for the AmazoGoogoMetaAppleInternet so they can keep posting to Social Media and doing their online shopping.</text></item><item><author>Jolter</author><text>Internet anarchists getting excited about the prospect of forking the Internet feels a lot like when a lot of preppers got excited about the potential breakdown of society when Covid hit.&lt;p&gt;“Finally I can put all my skills to the test, which people have been teasing me about for so long.”&lt;p&gt;In both cases, this attitude has the problem that they ignore the vast majority of people who would suffer under the new order. Very few people would find their way out of the corporate walled gardens and into the free information superhighway.</text></item><item><author>toyg</author><text>This might be where the internet really gets forked, as it&amp;#x27;s been predicted over and over since the &amp;#x27;90s.&lt;p&gt;On one side, we&amp;#x27;ll have a &amp;quot;clean&amp;quot;, authority-sanctioned &amp;quot;corpweb&amp;quot;, where everyone is ID&amp;#x27;ed to the wazoo; on the other, a more casual &amp;quot;greynet&amp;quot; galaxy of porn and decentralized communities will likely emerge, once all tinkerers get pushed out of corpnet. It could be an interesting opportunity to reboot a few long-lost dreams.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hgsgm</author><text>Source?&lt;p&gt;There were other powers on North America.</text></comment>