The Internet is Going Dark; Here’s Why

WeatherTech
3 min readJun 20, 2020

The internet is going dark. This may not, however, be happening in the fashion you might expect. The internet is based on an open system — its protocols and systems are build on freedom of speech. Anyone on the internet can talk to everyone else. Any computer or device connected to the world-wide web can navigate to Google or Facebook. In the past, data was sent “In the clear,” between devices. This means that all data…

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WeatherTech, aka Gavin, is a computer science student who writes about weather and technology in his free time. Find my cybersecurity work at networkthreats.org