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Imagine the internet that would offer you to communicate privately with anyone else without censorship, safe from the prying eyes of surveillance authorities….

… Decentralized, Encrypted, Peer-to-Peer Supported and especially a non-IP Address based Internet.

Yeah, a New Private Internet that would be harder to get Hacked.

This Internet is a dream of all Internet users today and, of course, Kim Dotcom – the Famous Internet entrepreneur who introduced legendary Megaupload and MEGA file sharing services to the World.

Kim Dotcom announced plans to start his very own private internet at the beginning of this year and has now revealed more details about MegaNet — a decentralized, non-IP based network that would share data via "Blockchains," the technology behind Bitcoins.

On Thursday, Dotcom remotely addressed a conference in Sydney, Australia, where he explained how MegaNet will utilize the power of mobile phones and laptops to operate.

How will MegaNet work?

MegaNet will work on non-IP-based Internet that will use blockchains and new protocols to communicate and exchange data while using the Internet's existing physical infrastructure.

MegaNet will actually rely on the unused processing power of people's smartphones and laptops.

Users with MegaNet on their smartphone would be able to donate their device's processing capability and storage bandwidth when they actually aren't using it.

Dotcom believes that once the service has enough subscribers, this would become an incredibly large amount of power, so much so that it can operate MegaNet.

https://archive.is/rEzE8

>>863

>Inevitable infiltration

Very likely. Security is hoot as Mr. Young has often pointed out, I believe he is correct. You can get hacked online, as well as 'offline' these days. No computer (nor magnetic, electronic or digital medium) is 100% secure, so why would anyone assume any network could ever be?

Best to assume you are already being watched, tracked, hacked and your account passwords cracked. I assume the same. Disconnected HDD/flashdrive backups stored in faraday cages face a similar threat as well: data degradation over time. Just like optical discs do too.

Assume the worst - infiltration; backup and save what you can and mitigate what damage could be done, but best to expect damage and have secondary backups cached underground in another well hidden location as well.

As for the neural networks (in our brain), likely they can already be infiltrated, intercepted and manipulated (perhaps even long ago).

Kim Dotcom, the man synonymous with the file-sharing service MegaUpload, has a new project in the works, a distributed, decentralized alternative Internet called MegaNet. The network will use the processing power of idle smartphones to create a network separate from the open web and presumably outside the reach of copyright laws, which have dogged the internet entrepreneur for years.

Dotcom is wanted in the United States to face charges of copyright infringement relating to the now defunct Megaupload, so he spoke via Skype from his home in New Zealand where he is facing extradition hearings to the Sydney, Australia-based startup conference SydStart.

“If you install the Meganet app on your smartphone in the future, what you allow Meganet to do is to use your smartphone when it is idle, to use the processing power of your smartphone,” Dotcom said according to BusinessInsider, adding that "if you have 100 million smartphones that have the MegaNet app installed, we'll have more online storage capacity, bandwidth and calculating power than the top 10 largest websites in the world combined."

Dotcom, who has become a voice for Internet privacy in recent years, said that he had invented a new – better – version of the blockchain technology which is what powers bitcoin.

Dotcom says that MegaNet will have no IP addresses which are currently used to identify all Internet users today and promised very strong encryption with "systems that will not be reverse engineered or cracked by any supercomputer," according to a report from Mashable.

https://archive.is/8H7PA

http://hedgeaccordingly.com/2015/10/london-kimdotcom-outlines-his-alternative-internet-project-titled-meganet.html

Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has a bold prediction: Censorship around the world could end in a decade, and better use of encryption will help people overcome government surveillance.

In a lecture at Johns Hopkins University on Wednesday, the executive of the world's biggest web search company made a pitch for ending censorship in China and other countries with restricted freedom of speech by connecting everyone to the Internet and protecting their communication from spying.

"First they try to block you; second, they try to infiltrate you; and third, you win. I really think that's how it works. Because the power is shifted," he said.

"I believe there's a real chance that we can eliminate censorship and the possibility of censorship in a decade."

Google, at which Schmidt served as CEO until 2011, has faced its own criticism for intercepting data over the years. The company acknowledged in 2010 that a fleet of cars it operates to map the world's streets had mistakenly collected passwords and other personal data from home consumers' wireless networks over a two year-period.

Earlier this week, Google agreed to pay $17 million to settle a probe by 37 U.S. states that it bypassed privacy settings on the iPhone's Web browser and tracked Web users.

"It's pretty clear to me that government surveillance and the way in which governments are doing this will be here to stay in some form, because it's how the citizens will express themselves, and the governments will want to know what they're doing," Schmidt said.

"In that race, I think the censors will lose, and I think that people would be empowered."

https://archive.is/Rzwrn

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/21/us-usa-google-schmidt-idUSBRE9AK03D20131121