Computer and Internet Safety
Planned Obsolescence: Technology That’s Built to Crash
It can be uploaded to a web site or FTP server for easy download by others. It can be put into a “shared location” or onto a file server for immediate use by colleagues. The load of bulk downloads to many customers can be eased by the use of “mirror” servers or peer-to-peer networks. In any of those cases, access to the file could also be managed by user authentication, the transit of the file over the Internet may be obscured by encryption, and cash could change hands for access to the file. The value could be paid by the distant charging of funds from, for instance, a credit card whose particulars are also passed – normally totally encrypted – across the Internet.
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The last restrictions on carrying commercial visitors ended on 30 April 1995, when the NSF ended its sponsorship of the NSFNET Backbone Service and the service ended. Today nearly all Internet infrastructure in the United States, and enormous portion in different nations, is supplied and owned by the personal sector. Traffic is exchanged between these networks, at major interconnection points, in accordance with established Internet requirements and commercial agreements. National Science Foundation (NSF) created the NSFNET spine, using TCP/IP, to connect their supercomputing amenities. NSFNET became a basic-objective analysis network, a hub to attach the supercomputing facilities to each other and to the regional research and schooling networks that may in flip connect campus networks.
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