[Decentralizing is incompatible with rapid evolution because it's difficult to change.]
[Censorship residtence is easier in centralized environments because you can move quickly and the cost of change is low.]
[The PINs used to receive push notifications can reveal your phone number.]
[To build systems that fail gradually enough for recovery efforts to be effective.]
[Effort balancing is to ensure that the computational cost of a request is greater than that of producing a response.]
[The Internet Archive is effectively a collection of samples. Some data loss adds noise, but there are enough samples that it won't really make a difference.]
[The more random a system is, the harder it is to attack.]
[The social media stream is a form of television: highly visual; auto-playing videos; advertising; short snippets of unrelated content; centralized; just scroll.]
When I log on to Facebook, my personal television starts. All I need to do is to scroll: New profile pictures by friends, short bits of opinion on current affairs, links to new stories with short captions, advertising, and of course self-playing videos. I occasionally click on like or share button, read peoples' comments or leave one, or open an article. But I remain inside Facebook, and it continues to broadcast what I might like. This is not the web I knew when I went to jail. This is not the future of the web. This future is television.
