Beyond the walled gardens and streaming subscriptions lies a treacherous sea of routers. A place where pirates, spies, and thieves compete for the opportunity to access the secrets passing by. All of our most sensitive and private information passes through this place each day with only a thin layer of protection.
Substitutions and transpositions scramble our secrets in the rounds of encryption. Public keys get shared and private keys are kept safe. Certificates and key exchanges flutter quickly. Salted hashes slow the brutes from forcing the gates open.
Modern changes in the technologies allow both attackers and defenders more opportunities for success. The arms race continues. Quantum computers revealing factors. AI agents identifying new attacks.
As a mechanism of the internet, all data is intercepted. This should justify encryption and sound security expectations. Still, data is sent as cleartext.
This is the Ugly Internet.
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