[gigel82]

I'm not an expert in this area, but I thought blockchain and things like zk-SNARKs solved this.

I agree that if remote device attestation comes bundled in, it's worse overall.

But are we just SOL then? How long before Cloudflare integrates, and then ISPs? What is left of the internet? Are we all going to run pirate LoRa nodes and other such things to get some free (as in freedom) internet?

[iamnothere]

> Are we all going to run pirate LoRa nodes and other such things to get some free (as in freedom) internet?

I will, if it comes down to it. I wouldn’t love to return to the 1980s with pirate BBSes and floppynet, but I already lived through it and survived. There would be a certain romance to it, like old hacker movies, maybe it would even make cyberpunk cool again.

(To be clear, it would still suck and we should fight this. But even if we lose a battle, the war is eternal.)