security as immunology

Dear security team,

   I wrote a short essay ”Co-Immunology and the Web” that looks at 
security from the immunological perspective. I show that the hyper-text 
nature of the web makes the co-immunological perspective essential, as 
security has to be thought as relations *between* sites.

It starts like this:

[[ 
The Covid-19 global pandemic has taught us that immunology is not just
a biological phenomenon, but a personal one requiring us to adopt hygienic
practices, a social one and indeed with the closing of frontiers a
geopolitical one. But it also breaks into the space of technology with
requirements that we learn hygiene rules about reposting content, to limit
transmission of false information about the virus.

I will show how the concept of co-immunity developed by Peter Sloterdijk
can give us a framework to understand this. The essay ends by developing
an analysis of the immunological features of the internet and locate pieces
that we need to make a healthier World Wide Web.  
]]

There are a number of references there that could be useful
to rethink security in a new light.

Happy first of April,

Henry Story

https://co-operating.systems
@bblfish

Received on Wednesday, 1 April 2020 18:26:51 UTC