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authorDimitri Staessens <dimitri@ouroboros.rocks>2019-03-16 16:46:17 +0100
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<center>![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/move_fast_and_break_things.png)</center>
+The current TCP/IP network stack has a long development history,
+leading to inefficiencies that allow hackers to infiltrate networks
+with childish ease. In order to get to a trustworthy and secure
+communications infrastructure, the structure of the Internet needs to
+be drastically revised. The current protocols have so much deprecated,
+unused and unnecessary bits and fields, that trying to guard against
+every possible exploit is inefficient and virtually impossible.
+Ouroboros is a new decentralized packet transport network for POSIX
+operating systems that aims to accepts Edward Snowdens
+[challenge](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/edward-snowdens-other-motive-for-leaking/370068/):
+to build a network infrastructure that will "*enforce a principle
+whereby the only way the powerful may enjoy privacy is when it is the
+same kind shared by the ordinary: one enforced by the laws of nature,
+rather than the policies of man*."