<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Do we agree?<div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Viewpoint: The internet is broken – we need to start over … Last year, the level and ferocity of </font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">cyber-attacks on the internet reached such a horrendous level that some are now thinking the</font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">unthinkable: to let the internet wither on the vine and start up a new more robust one instead.</font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">On being asked if we should start again, many – maybe most – immediately argue that the internet</font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> is such an integral part of our social and economic fabric that even considering a change in its</font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">fundamental structure is inconceivable and rather frivolous. I was one of those. However,</font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">recently the evidence suggests that our efforts to secure the internet are becoming less</font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">and less effective, and so the idea of a radical alternative suddenly starts to look less</font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">laughable. – BBC/ Prof Alan Woodward, Department of Computing, University of Surrey</font></div></blockquote></div><div><div><br></div></div></body></html>