Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 40324
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2005/10/28-31 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Mail] UID:40324 Activity:nil
10/28   Abandon the Web! guerrilla platform warfare: http://csua.org/u/dus
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csua.org/u/dus -> abandontheweb.blogspot.com/2005/10/five-paradoxes-of-web.html
The fundamental design choices that were right at the beginning of the Web are starting to backfire now. This is an att empt to identify what is impossible to fix within the current Web. In the last month, as a Web user I had to deal with spam (in my webmail inbox and on my blog), denial-of-service, and identity t heft; As a Web developer, I had to w ork around browser incompatibilities and was forced to expend an effort disproportionate to the complexity of tasks I was trying to accomplish. A lot of resources are spent on combating the problems of the Web; Whole ind ustries now prosper solely because of imperfections of the Web. This is a good indicator that computer user community should invest in a new glo bal infrastructure and address fundamental problems with fundamental sol utions. Many Web services are free for users, because charging for them is impracticalbut providing these resources costs money. This makes direct business models unsustainable, and requires metering of resources. Even without explicit caps, limitations of provider's hardware and bandwidth lead to denial of service to users during peak timesor during attacks. There is no universal identity mechanism: a website can't greet you by name, unless you filled out a form beforehand. Identity management mechanisms are clumsy, leading to identity theft. At the same time, there are various covert ways of invading privacy which are transparent to a user: IP addresses, cookies, Referer headers, one-pixel GIFs in emails. Writing advanced Web applications requires sacrificing one of three important components: capability, compatibility, or speed of development. Testing on all browser flavors and versions is a luxury few can afford. It doesn't matter if one browser is more standards-compliant than another; in practice, you have to support multiple clients or lose users. Web is asymmetrical: there's a client, and there's a server. The client speaks one language (JavaScript), the server speaks another (usually not JavaScript). To cross the boundary between the client and the server, the code must be translated into a different language. No matter how fast the network is, the mobility of code is limited by the speed of a programmer's manual conversion between client-side and server-side APIs. certificate authorities are essentially centralized too. Centralization gives monopolies to organizations in control, while at the same time creating global vulnerabilities. But there's no one to appeal to if an entity is misbehaving (eg spamming), since the Web authorities do not accept responsibility for the platform's citizens.