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Amidst all the discussion of alternative uses of blockchains, it is often forgotten that the very first fork of Bitcoin, Namecoin, pursued a daring vision for a decentralized, censorship-resistant internet. Greg Slepak, co-founder of the okTurtles Foundation joined us for an interesting discussion of DNS, Namecoin and how blockchains can be used to decentralize the internet.

Topics covered included:

- What DNS is and the role it plays in the architecture of the internet

- What man-in-the-middle attacks are and why certificate authorities offer poor protection

- How certificate authorities, SSL, IP routing and VPNs work

- Why the current model is broken from a privacy and security perspective

- How Namecoin and the blockchain could enable a decentralized and more secure internet

- The security risks when online identity is tied to a private key and how they could be mitigated

- What DNSChain is and what projects okTurtles is working on

Links mentioned in this episode:

- okTurtles Foundation http://bit.ly/1SJq76Q

- Namecoin Primer http://bit.ly/1S6KxM4

- Namecoin Website http://bit.ly/1fzrus2

- Airplane Wifi is not safe http://bit.ly/1fzdqyX

- DNSChain demo http://bit.ly/1DIC2uS

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