Snowden and Neuromancer. Let's blanket-encrypt all the data.

"The Bible, for example, can be sent down the wire now, over UDP, and doesn't have to be checksummed, because The Bible is in effect, metadata"

this is a nice writeup, but it reads more like a poem or a stream of consciousness type article. yeah, granted the snowden thing affects us all, but blanket encryption? everyday joe users still doesnt understand pgp, and thats easy. neuromancer is a much more advanced society, with cyborgs, and such, so we're a long way away from any dystopia.

i could be wrong

It seems more like a manifesto than a guide.

Many of us are not cryptographers, we have not been educated on what we can do to solve this.

This isn't about the idiocy / ignorance behind the Adobe breach with merely encrypted (not hashed) passwords.

What would really help is a set of patterns that we can apply, the consequences of what we can do with the data and what we cannot, and what "guarantees" it gives us and the owners of said data.

It's hard to be sure, but I think that the author is calling for IPsec to be made mandatory again in IPV6.