Re: security as immunology

I forgot to send a link to the essay.

https://medium.com/@bblfish/co-immunology-and-the-web-43379b46688e


> On 1 Apr 2020, at 20:26, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:
> 
> 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

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