Actually I was searching for my nane’s involvment on the Web by means of the Copernic Agent meta search engine, and I rediscovered our both comments on your Web site. A smile.

Well, as for OpenDNS, we are a bunch I believe (I’m even sure of thet!) to be lingering fot those London servers to open. Fortunately, OpenDNS’ blog keeps up the realtime info on the outcome, yet to “arise”!

I agree with you, we have seen the Web’s birth, and we admire – or notice – it’s adventure towards maturity. ‘Maturity’ is not the right word since it could let believe wisdom is only a matter of time. Let’s say, towards tomorrow…

Whatever tomorrow shall be – including this fantastic phenomena – no doubt in my mind life learns from itself: life is intelligent, even if its creatures mat not always be.

So, as you see, I remain optimistic. I’d be stupid – and I happen to be more than once – to not live in conformity with the outcome of life.

‘Till next.

I’m sure we can say without mistake that now most Internet users are non-technical people. As you said, ISP should be the first authority to protect and inform them about the dangesr of surfing the web. Unfortunately you’re right, that’s absolutely not the reality

When I discovered the Internet (in 1994) and I got a personal connection, I immediately saw the potential dangers of being connected. I said to myself that when time comes where average users will be connected, then we’ll be in a lot of trouble… Today, when I see the computers of my friends and family being infected or corrupted because of the Internet, I think I was right. It’s a real mess for “naive” people.

Someone and first ISPs should take the responsibility to protect users by properly configuring their Internet connection as well as OS vendors. I easily understand that most user don’t care about how all of that work, they want to use it safely and I’m sure they are ready to pay for garantees.

Talking about the Web infrastructure itself, I’m just amazed each time I fire up a browser. For the first time in the history, humanity has managed to gather forces to build a planetary wide compatible network infrastructure accessible to all people for free. This “second world” of freedom should be protected and even “bad guys” have a lot to loose in trying to destroy it.

Since we are part of the generation of people who saw the web grow, we also have a part of responsibility to teach other people how to use it carefully. I try to do it anytime I can, but it’s not easy to teach that to people… The Web is too much assimilated to trivial technologies such as TV — as well as computers — and it’s more complex than that…

Surfing the Web leads to a tremendous amount of information, except one: reality of the average user’s mentality. We see, hear, read only what has been, or is, expressed. We observe the visible part of the iceberg, and the illusion could be to believe all users (or a great deal) are geeks, pros, and responsible. I’m afraid the average user’s profile is far away from that, in the same way talkative inhabitants of a great city are not representative of the whole nation, and particularly of the deep country’s way of life… not that I criticize, but the rythm is different, as well as the aims and the means to have them achieved. The Web is not representative of the average user.

You know, Frederic, I am continuously surprised to see how the Web is maintaining itself, and when I say Web I mean in fact the growing worlwide networks and computerized infrastructure of the planet. I am surprised as well to observe what mankind is capable of, when liberty is the sky, when anonymity are the wings. And even though all this, I remain optimistic. I guess I remain convinced there are more “good guys” than “bad guys”. I guess above all that “bad guys” will relalize their mistakes, and that “good guys” will (contine to) understand they are themselves not perfect. In one word: I believe in the power of communication.

Gee, have I talked

I definitely share your opinion regarding French mentality in that regard and I also think the adoption will be quite low here…

But you know, that reminds me all the security things around Internet, viruses, Windows… People are absolutely not conscious about the risks of being connected, securities issues, phising and they don’t even know what a DNS is or a software upgrade…

So I just wonder how people will be able to choose OpenDNS on their own will.