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Andrew Blum's Tubes Analysis

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Reading Andrew Blum’s Tubes, the section on the openness and trust required to define the internet immediately caught my attention. “There’s a certain amount of vulnerability involved with being a network on the Internet. When two networks connect, they have to trust each other—which also means trusting everyone the other one trusts.” It strikes me, that today the struggle of the internet is how to make it more private—to protect everyone’s information, when at its very core it’s meant to be open and shared. There is something to be said about the trust needed to run networks. People are constantly providing personal information to websites. Whether it’s to transfer some money between bank accounts, pay a bill, or even update information on

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