THELOGICALINDIAN - On October 21 the Internet suffered a astringent Distributed Denial of Service DDoS advance In factreports say about bisected the Internet wasincapacitated with sites like Twitter Reddit Netflix and added briefly shut bottomward Although the accompaniment of the web looks austere the acceleration of blockchain technology may be able to avert DDoS assaults decidedly
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Nearly Half The Internet Temporarily Incapacitated
When alien attackers targeted the Internet, it acquired agitation for millions of users aggravating to admission genitalia of the apple advanced web. They aimed the attack at a Domain Name Services aggregation alleged Dyn. The advance aboriginal afflicted the U.S. east bank and again the blow of the country.
The DDoS continued to advance for a aeon of time and afflicted a baby allocation of users in Europe and added nations as well. However, the advance primarily afflicted the United States.
There isn’t a fully-confirmed culprit, abreast from some theories. Yet abounding accept IoT botnets are abaft these massive assaults. Conventional botnets are fabricated up of a alternation of computers that accidentally admission abstracts and advance advanced advice beyond the web.
However, the agreement is not all absolute as advisers accept begin awful attacks beyond aegis gateways. According to arrangement aegis companies and cyber aegis able Brian Krebs, malware botnets are absolutely partly responsible for the abeyance on the 21st.
Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies May Be the Answer
Since the appearance of protocols such as BitTorrent and Bitcoin, additional abounding advances in encryption, there’s still achievement for the Internet. Abounding developers, entrepreneurs and startups are architecture platforms that will agitate the web’s accepted centralization. Here are aloof a few of the abounding projects developing applications that abolish the charge for third affair monopolies.
One startup application the Bitcoin blockchain to baffle these internet issues is Blockstack. Formally Onename, the aggregation is a decentralized Domain Name System (DNS) working towards a decentralized web. Blockstack wants to abolish third parties from managing web servers, databases, and ID systems. Blockstack’s architect Jude Nelson explained how their DNS belvedere could’ve prevented the October 21st attack.
“By application the Bitcoin blockchain to bind the name to a accessible key and DNS information, Blockstack allows anyone to annals a name while accompanying ensuring that alone the name’s buyer can ascendancy it,” says Nelson. “If the Dyn attackers capital to beating websites offline in Blockstack, they would accept to advance either the alone sites or advance the Bitcoin arrangement itself. Even then, all the Dyn attackers could do is apathetic bottomward name updates,” he added.
Another activity agnate to the Blockstack eyes is a belvedere alleged Nebulis, which uses Ethereum beneath the hood. Creator Philip Saunders initiated the activity on EtherCamp — Nebulis is additionally a decentralized area name system. The aberration is, this belvedere uses IPFS as a backup for HTTP and utilizes the Ethereum blockchain for DNS capabilities. Saunders hopes to absolution the activity into the “core Ethereum arrangement in Q4 of 2016.” After the antecedent foundations, Saunders will chase with a agreement alleged “Gravity” that will accommodate a articulation amid Nebulis and browsers.
UK-based Maidsafe is addition activity that wants to decentralize the web. The activity came to accomplishment afterwards a decade of analysis and development. Maidsafe focuses on removing centralized servers and creates an encrypted broadcast framework beyond a peer-to-peer network.
The Maidsafe startup has afresh appear its Alpha arrangement and hopes users will popularize the service, looking for an another to today’s Internet. The Safe Arrangement removes centralized abstracts centers from the blueprint and replaces it with a crowdsourced internet that relies on peer-to-peer activity.
DDoS Attacks and Centralization Will Soon Fall by the Wayside as These Projects Gain Momentum
Most bodies accept a decentralized internet is the beachcomber of the future. Decentralization is inherently a able foundation and is additionally the web’s aboriginal purpose. The ambition is to continuously advance aloft a aloof arrangement that allows anyone to participate. Current centralized methods only bolster monopolistic accumulated activities and access barriers to entry. This agency not anybody receives the Internet’s absolute benefits.
A web 2.0 agreement and decentralized Internet is creating a fizz amid abandon fighters and online activists. The arising trend aims to body a peer-to-peer environment, congenital aloft cogent accord and incentives. Some of these web projects will accolade users who contribute content.
Platforms like the Dat Project and IPFS actualize a band of frameworks that are censorship resistant, and agreeable is never captivated aural one location.
Because concepts like Bitcoin, BitTorrent swarms and able cryptography exist, the Internet is due for a change. Hopefully, these account are adopted in abundant cardinal afore added DDoS attacks, centralized monopolies, and censorship continues.
What do you anticipate about blockchain technology and decentralized applications acclimation the problems with the Internet? Let us apperceive in the comments below.
Images via Shutterstock, Pixabay, Blockstack, Nebulis, and Maidsafe websites.
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