Decentralize ALL THE THINGS - Eurucamp 2014

The web's original architecture is decentralised, and for good reasons. Somehow, though, we managed to forget that throughout the last years. We use centralised services like twitter, facebook and gmail without thinking (or even blinking). I'm going to argue in this talk that decentralisation matters a lot because it makes the web resilient against technical and non technical threats which are, as we now know, thanks to Snowden, real and not only theoretical. What can we do about it? We need new technologies, but we also need to think about how to find forms of organisations and ways of doing business to accommodate decentralised structures. The future is, indeed, not equally distributed, and it is upon us to fix that.

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1. DECENTRALIZE DECENTRALIZE ALL THE THINGS!!! ALL THE THINGS!!! Jan 'halfbyte' Krutisch Eurucamp 2014, Potsdam
2. DECENTRALIZE DECENTRALIZE ALL THE THINGS!!! ALL THE THINGS!!!
3. Eurucamp!
4. How was your year?
12. Why not gardening?
13. History image credits can be found at the end of this presentation. for optical reasons. thank you for your understanding. now, my uncle heiko, he owns a few goats. hmm, goat cheese. but that probably does not matter here.
14. History
15. TCP / IP
16. Hosts Host Host Host Host Host Host Host Host Host Host
17. Equality Host Host Host Host Host Host Host Host Host Host = = = = = = = = = = =
18. Protocols Host Host Host Host Host Host Host Host Host Host
19. ADSL
20. ARBITRAGE
21. Resilience
22. ARPAnet
23. ARPAnet
24. Centralized Systems
25. Centralized Systems
26. Opposition
28. Technical & Social
29. Technology
30. NNTP / SMTP
31. HTTP?
32. OPEN SOURCE OPEN SOURCE ALL THE THINGS!!! ALL THE THINGS!!!
33. ALL THE THINGS!!! ALL THE THINGS!!! UX UX
34. User Interface
35. Setup / Installation
36. Maintenance / Ops
37. (please. let's fix this)
38. Interoperability
39. Simplicity
40. SMTP
41. XMPP
42. Simple always wins
43. Open Protocols
44. Service Discovery
45. Webfinger http://webfinger.net/
46. Identity
47. OpenID Connect
48. Security
49. ALL THE THINGS!!! ALL THE THINGS!!! ENCRYPT ENCRYPT
50. Alice Bob Service
51. Alice Bob Service Transport Encryption Transport Encryption
52. Alice Bob Service Transport Encryption Transport Encryption Content Encryption
53. Alice Bob Service Transport Encryption Transport Encryption Content Encryption End 2 End Encryption
54. Social
55. Organisation
56. DECENTRALIZE DECENTRALIZE ALL THE THINGS!!! ALL THE THINGS!!!
57. HUGE == BAD
58. webscale = BAD!!!
59. Small Pieces Loosely Joined
60. Small deployments loosely joined
61. !== self hosted
62. Business
63. World Domination == BAD
64. VC funding model
65. economies of scale
66. Small businesses loosely joined
67. critical infrastructure
68. critical infrastructure
69. critical infrastructure
70. critical infrastructure
71. critical infrastructure
72. critical infrastructure
73. critical infrastructure
74. Coop
75. Hostsharing e.G.
76. Nössefiber
77. ∑
78. Distributed
79. Decentralized
80. Systems
81. Organisations
82. Businesses
83. Resilient
84. Infrastructure
85. Surveillance
86. Destruction
87. Control
88. ❤️ Our Internet ❤️
89. ❤️ Thank you ❤️ unhosted.org torproject.org redecentralize.org BitSync pants.social sockethub.org mailpile.is tent.io
90. ❤️ Thank you ❤️ ! jan@krutisch.de @halfbyte http://jan.krutisch.de ! (image credits on the following slides)
91. https://www.flickr.com/photos/garryknight/4616131097/ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AGreguss_J%C3%A1nos_S%C3%A1toros_cig%C3%A1nyok.jpg http://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1223a/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AResilience_of_nature_-_geograph.org.uk_-_461119.jpg
92. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_cloud Source: Unknown… http://www.flaticon.com/authors/freepik http://www.flaticon.com/authors/dave-gandy http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tahrir_Square_during_8_February_2011.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABundesarchiv_Bild_183- N0813-0307%2C_Leipzig%2C_Universit%C3%A4t%2C_Rechenzentrum %2C_Computer.jpg
93. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GYSD_5th_Training_Day1_Sec4_Group_Discussion.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/zappowbang/270692474/ http://2bgr8stock.deviantart.com/art/Money-Cash-113445826