Re:The Web Has Changed (Score 1)

I am from Spain and almost 50 by now. I bought my fist personal computer (an Amstrad) back in the mid 80s, and I use internet everyday since the beginning of the 90s. I'm afraid I am not yet "technically savvy" (I have devoted my professional life to law and humanities). Probably it is my problem, but I think it is starting to be the technically savvy's problem as well. For a person not very keen on technical issues, but worried about privacy or security, there has only been two main roads open: Mac (my option), a fools-proof system but quite expensive and propietary, or Linux, which only recently created systems apt for anyone, like Ubuntu, but is still more difficult to use than Mac if you intend to do anything else but web browsing and checking your mail. Sourceforge is in fact a mine of wonderful software, but I have forgotten how many times I have downloaded something that interested me a lot, but had to finally give up because it was so complicated to compile, re-compile, install, uninstall, dissemble and decode that I lost my spirit. For a long time, hackers and other savvy people have done invaluable work for the benefit of the community, and many of us have profited from it. But there has been as well a tendency to paternally despise those unsavvy users as minors; so many pieces of important software have gone around without anything remotely resembling an autoinstaller or a GUI for grannies (too boring a task). Up to now it was on the unsavvy's detriment. In the near future it will go on everyone's detriment. The only possible solution I can reasonably foresee is the creation of a large scale decentralized net of computers talking to each other under very heavy cryptographic algorithms. Something like the Tor-Onion solution, but very, very easy to (auto)install, (auto)configure and use, and allowing faster speeds. Should it become a trivial item to use on your computer, like PC's antivirus, it would help to solve or at least alleviate, some of the main threats now confronting internet.