of proposals with broad consensus among technical communities, such as the World Wide Web Consortium’s Platform for Internet Content Selection and Version 6 of the Internet Engineering Task Force’s Internet Protocol (the current internet runs mostly on IP Version 4). These and other efforts have faltered, however, because of poor design and lethargic adoption rates, leaving web users vulnerable to governments, corporations and anonymous bad actors of all kinds.
In the meantime, most users have grown accustomed to intrusions from hackers and viruses; they assume that there is no way to guarantee privacy or security on the web. But despite the massive vulnerabilities and the regular occurrence of significant data breaches, the long-predicted “digital Pearl Harbor” has not come to pass.
– The Washington Post
Over the past three decades, governments at all levels – local, state, national and international – have claimed and exercised jurisdiction over behaviour online.
A floor map at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore shows the routes of undersea internet cables in Southeast Asia.