The Internet is now too fragile

Some of the world's leading scientists said that the development is booming, lack of planning on the ancient foundation of the Internet is causing billions of dollars in damage, hindering development and serious security threats.

The burden on the Internet

Since the early 1990s, David Clark - an senior expert at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT - USA) and one of the chief architects of the Internet - has begun to warn about technical obstacles that affect to the expansion of the Internet, especially the domain name problem and the lack of built-in security. Now, Mr. Clark affirmed that the technical burden was on our shoulders.

It is undeniable that the Internet has attracted billions of users, e-commerce has flourished, e-mail has become an extremely popular means of communication. But at the same time, the security situation is increasingly dangerous and the ability to receive new technologies is increasingly limited. If this situation continues, the worst possible situation is that at some point, all the huge Internet gadgets will be stuck.

Over the years, Internet applications have sprung up at breakneck speed, from online payments to voice over the Internet, downloading music over the network, file-sharing networks, wireless devices . Homes Exam development applications offer updates, patches, bug fixes .

Since then, the original simple communication technology of the Internet has been transformed into extremely complex and confusing and increasingly difficult to manage. The biggest and most visible consequence is chaotic cyber security.

Network security or plate "patch patch"

A new IBM study said that the number of virus-containing e-mails and criminal attacks in the world in the first half of 2005 has increased by 50% over the same period last year.

In the US, statistics show that 43% of Internet users discover spyware on their computers and 91% have taken preventive measures such as avoiding access to suspicious websites or downloading worthwhile software. doubt, install security software .

Spam issues are also horrible. Each week more than 1.2 billion spams are distributed worldwide, accounting for 60% of the total e-mail. But the most worrisome thing is that a large number of normal users' computers in the world have been controlled by hackers, to turn into a giant remote-controlled network to carry out Bad jobs like attacking websites or sending spam.

The core problem is that the Internet does not have an integrated and inherent security architecture to combat viruses or spam or anything harmful. The first Internet protocols were designed in the 1960s, with the sole purpose of creating a link between several hundred government computers and universities.

This technique divides digital data into small "packages" and passes these packets to locations to be sent through a series of network routers. As such, Internet cannot distinguish if some packets contain viruses or bad software.

Gradually, people came up with "spice" solutions such as firewalls, anti-virus software, spam filters, patches . This measure is very passive, affecting from outside. Enter in a limited and sloppy way because not everyone installs these things and each uses different types. The patches appear like mushrooms after the rain make the whole system become "patching patch", trouble, difficult to understand, difficult to manage and difficult to improve.

Many experts agree that if this keeps up, sooner or later we will go to a dead end, there will definitely be holes that we cannot fix .