• Facebook opens Internet.org amid row
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[quote]But Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg said it was "not sustainable to offer the whole internet for free".[/quote] He's not wrong but damn he sounds like an asshole
While overall this is a fantastic idea, the concept of monitorable, non-HTTPS data transfer is no good, especially given Facebooks track record with personal information (if I'm remembering correctly)
[QUOTE=itisjuly;47656513]He's not wrong but damn he sounds like an asshole[/QUOTE] There is literally more work and processing involved making a network that *cant* get to half the internet than one that can. The way to implement this is creating a white-list ACL that checks every packet and sees if its allowed to go there or not. You are saving no money by not allowing traffic to most of the internet, other than an infrastructural one due to a purposefully small userbase.
[QUOTE=ArcticRevrus;47657657]There is literally more work and processing involved making a network that *cant* get to half the internet than one that can. The way to implement this is creating a white-list ACL that checks every packet and sees if its allowed to go there or not. You are saving no money by not allowing traffic to most of the internet, other than an infrastructural one due to a purposefully small userbase.[/QUOTE] If it was open for all sites people would abuse the shit out of the system.
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