#089 Greg Slepak: The Turtle Crawl Towards Internet Decentralization
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Amidst all the discussion of alternative uses of blockchains, it is often forgotten that the very first fork of Bitcoin, Namecoin, pursued a daring vision for a decentralized, censorship-resistant internet. Greg Slepak, co-founder of the okTurtles Foundation joined us for an interesting discussion of DNS, Namecoin and how blockchains can be used to decentralize the internet.
Topics covered in this episode:
- What DNS is and the role it plays in the architecture of the internet
- What man-in-the-middle attacks are and why certificate authorities offer poor protection
- How certificate authorities, SSL, IP routing and VPNs work
- Why the current model is broken from a privacy and security perspective
- How Namecoin and the blockchain could enable a decentralized and more secure internet
- The security risks when online identity is tied to a private key and how they could be mitigated
- What DNSChain is and what projects okTurtles is working on
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This episode was hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Sébastien Couture, and is availble on YouTube, SoundCloud, and our website.
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