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Making a ‘new internet’ to protect data and bypass the Great Firewall
A Hong Kong-based software engineer is doing his bit to develop a “new internet” said to offer users complete control over their personal information and bypass mainland China’s “Great Firewall”. Blockstack is a decentralised internet where users keep their data locally when they run apps. This is in contrast to the conventional internet which stores users’ information in centralised servers – making it vulnerable to theft by cyberattack.
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Off topic: in my teenage years there was no internet. In this article they are talking about "the conventional internet". Realisation of aging is always in those pesky details.