&gt; private unless an eavesdropper was physically nearby.<p>I completely agree with your post. I have an idea for how to resolve this via networking topology. Right now, TCP&#x2F;IP seems to me to be an engine for centralizing power: Limited hop count and hierarchical address assignment leads to star topologies, leading to economies of scale that again support centralization.<p>I propose a network protocol stack that encourages a mesh topology, where it actually makes economic sense to physically link my home to 2 or more of my immediate neighbors. I surmise that all my neighbors (or all the neighbors of the person I&#x27;m communicating with) would have to be my adversary in order to spy on my communications (See secret splitting on Wikipedia). I feel that mass surveillance doesn&#x27;t scale with this topology.<p>I&#x27;ve been working for some time on designing such a networking protocol stack... What do folks here think? Is this worth my time?