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"Last week, the World Wide Web Foundation announced in an open letter that it
would be “winding down” and “closing [its] virtual doors” after 15 years of
working to make the web safer and more accessible.
The World Wide Web Foundation was founded in 2009 by Tim Berners-Lee, the man
who’s widely credited as inventing the world wide web and making it possible
for regular users like you and me to browse websites and download files over
the internet.
When the WWWF was first created, only 20 percent of the world’s population had
access to the internet. Today, that figure has ballooned to an astonishing 70
percent with no signs of stopping — and alongside that growth, ever more
threats of scams, malware, and hackers.
In the open letter, Berners-Lee writes that while the internet of today
continues to face new challenges, many excellent organizations have formed over
the last decade-plus that are “defending the Web’s principles and users’ rights
online.”
As such, Berners-Lee will be switching his attention away from the WWWF so he
can further develop his vision for the Solid Protocol, which aims to bring us a
more open and decentralized evolution of the web."
Via Violet Blue’s
Cybersecurity Roundup: October 8, 2024
https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-8-113584140
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
