Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

[ben at 6by7.net (Ben Cannon)]

Then Africa in particular is specifically disadvantaged - I spent a good deal of time in Haiti and 4G connectivity was abundant at good speeds, as were terrestrial fiber connections. 

Mirrors my experience in half a dozen other 3rd world countries.  Unless thereâ??s something particularly oppressive about Africa?

> On May 28, 2018, at 5:06 PM, Scott Weeks <surfer at mauigateway.com> wrote:
> 
> --- mpetach at netflight.com wrote:
> From: Matthew Petach <mpetach at netflight.com>
> On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 11:22 AM, Ben Cannon <ben at 6by7.net> wrote:
> 
>> Iâ??m sorry I simply believe that in 2018 with the advanced and cheap ptp
>> radio (ubiquiti anyone? $300 and I have a 200mbit/sec link over 10miles!
>> Spend a bit more and go 100km) plus the advancements in cubesats about to
>> be launched, even the 3rd world can simply get with the times.
> 
> I do not think you adequately understand the economics of the
> situation.
> 
> https://www.slideshare.net/InternetSociety/international-bandwidth-and-pricing-trends-in-subsahara-africa-79147043
> 
> slide 22, IP transit cost.
> 
> Your 200mbit/sec link that costs you $300 in hardware
> is going to cost you $4960/month to actually get IP traffic
> across, in Nairobi.   Yes, that's about $60,000/year.
> 
> Could *you* afford to "get with the times" if that's what
> your bandwidth was going to cost you?
> 
> Please, do a little research on what the real
> costs are before telling others they need to
> "simply get with the times."
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> 
> Also, please don't just look at continental countries 
> when researching.  Look at the small PICs (Pacific 
> Island Countries).  For example, search the posts from 
> Christian on Kiribati on the PICISOC list.  The cost is 
> extraordinary and all the ego-flattering bloat rsk 
> speaks (relevant part of the post id below) of in very 
> expensive to download and is nearly impossible to stop.
> 
> scott
> 
> 
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>> The problem (part of the problem) is that the people doing these foolish 
>> things are new, ignorant, and privileged: they don't realize that bandwidth 
>> is still an expensive and scarce resource for most of the planet. I've 
>> said for years that every web designer should be forced to work in an 
>> environment bandlimited to 56K in order to instll in them the virtue 
>> of frugality and strongly discourage them from flattering their egos 
>> by creating all-singing all-dancing web sites...that look great in the 
>> portfolios they'll show to their peers but are horribly bloated, slow, 
>> unrenderable in a lot of browsers, and fraught with security and privacy 
>> problems. (Try pointing a text-only browser at your favorite website. 
>> Can you even read the home page?) 
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