***Thanks to @starkerz for his [new interview with Sean Kim](https://steemit.com/decenternet/@starkerz/ceo-decenternet-interview-freeing-the-internet#@ura-soul/re-starkerz-ceo-decenternet-interview-freeing-the-internet-20180817t163914891z), CEO of Decenternet - the blockchain project I reviewed recently that aims to completely replace the way we use the internet with a crypto-based, privacy protecting 'shield' that helps us break free of the control agendas we face in the current climate of corporate internet services.***
In case you missed it, I wrote a series of posts a few weeks ago covering the Decenternet project, I suggest reading through them to understand the context of today's post:
[My introduction to Decenternet](https://steemit.com/decenternet/@ura-soul/decenternet-the-most-ambitious-and-disruptive-blockchain-replacement-for-the-internet-backed-by-the-web-s-original-inventors-and)
[Is Decenternet a strong investment opportunity](https://steemit.com/decenternet/@ura-soul/is-decenternet-a-strong-investment-opportunity-my-swot-business-analysis-of-this-ambitious-vision-of-a-decentralised-internet?sort=trending)
[Decenternet's proposed apps to replace Google, Ebay and others](https://steemit.com/decenternet/@ura-soul/evolving-the-internet-decenternet-s-publicly-owned-decentralized-web-apps-replacing-google-youtube-uber-and-ebay-plus-insurance?sort=author_reputation)
[Looking at the whitepaper with a critical eye](https://steemit.com/decenternet/@ura-soul/a-critique-of-decenternet-s-white-paper-and-ceo-is-the-internet-for-cyborgs-or-humans-does-decenternet-represent-real-balance-or).
The short version is that I like the principles involved, but am unclear about how the project will work in practise and more importantly, I raised some important questions, involving, among other topics:
- The apparent contradiction of ARPANET (the original founders of the internet) supporting the project due to it's anti-establishment intentions - yet ARPA being a dept. of the US Military / Government.
- The Metaphysical language and even Ancient Egyptian symbology used in the project.
- The possibility that the project is either knowingly or unknowingly intended to be used as something of a trojan horse to increase public perception of online privacy, while there being no real improvement (so that more people will share more private information online, while losing all of it to an ever shrinking group of eyes within alphabet agencies who desire that almost more than anything else!).
As you can see, the new interview with Sean somewhat addresses these topics, but really he has mostly left me with more questions than answers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pS2HBsza_M
Here's my reply to this video that I wrote earlier, under the post by @starkerz:
> Excellent - thanks to both of you for addressing these issues. Since it was mostly me who raised the issues of American military connection and metaphysical concepts in my blogs about Decenternet, I figured I would respond to Sean's answers here. Please bare in mind that I am not here as a troll or 'hater' or any such thing - I am a long term researcher of the topics being discussed and also a system engineer with quite a lot of experience by now.
> So I'll just focus on key points to keep this short.
> I. ARPA. Sean states here that ARPA and DARPA are not the same entity. However, Wikipedia's page about [DARPA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA) makes clear that:
> > The name of the organization first changed from its founding name ARPA to DARPA in March 1972, momentarily changing back to ARPA in February 1993, only to revert to DARPA in March 1996
> Which is sourced from [a page with more background info on this](http://mil-embedded.com/guest-blogs/arpa-darpa-and-jason/), which states:
> > In February 1958, reacting to the Russian lead in space technology, Eisenhower created the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) inside the Department of Defense (DoD). The original mission was to stay ahead of our enemies and prevent future technological surprises like Sputnik. ARPA’s initial focus was on missiles. Later in 1958, the money for missiles and space programs was transferred to another new agency, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). ARPA then changed their mission to long-range advanced military problems like the Defender missile defense program, early warning radar, and satellite detection of nuclear tests by the Russians.
> > ARPA was part of the Pentagon, a bureaucratic rats nest of inter-service rivalries and politics. The Air Force was broken-off from the Army and the CIA were created in September 1947, NSA was created in November 1952, and NASA was created in 1958. ARPA worked on projects for all these groups but was stuck inside the Pentagon. In 1972, it was renamed DARPA, changed back to ARPA in 1993, and then back to DARPA again in 1996. Also in 1972, the organization was moved from the Pentagon to offices in Arlington, Virginia, and out of the rats nest. The director of DARPA reports to the Secretary of Defense just like the military services.
> > DARPA employs only a few hundred people. They basically accept problems that the DoD can’t solve, take money from the Pentagon’s IDA (Institute for Defense Analysis) DDR&E (Director Defense Research and Engineering) office, and then they dole that money out to universities, military contractors, corporations (like RAND Corp.) and groups of scientists to study the problem and develop solutions.
> So who is incorrect here? Wikipedia and the military Author or the CEO of Decenternet? Comments are welcome here.
> II. Sean states that it is extremely unlikely that the small army of professional hackers and engineers hired by, for example, the NSA (the groups who Arpanet works with/for) would be able to hack Decenternet. Isn't that quite a bold claim to be making? What is the extent of his group's insights into the capabilities of these top secret groups with virtually unlimited black budgets?
> Given that CPUs can be targeted for hacking without even needing a network connection into the PC, using vibrational analysis and sound (a highly inventive and rarely spoken about technique), we should not be underestimating what is possible when it comes to hacking. Through exploiting just one hole in the Decenternet code or alternatively through the exploitation - en mass - of the deliberate backdoors hardwired into the hardware that most of us use today, it could become possible for the various agencies to see and manipulate almost to an unlimited degree.
> It is fine to say that your team is highly qualified and you are up to the challenge of competing with the world's best funded code ninjas, but without having any proof of that claim and without really going into technical detail regarding what backs up the claim - both now and into the future - I am sure that even Sean can understand why his optimism and almost guarantee of total security would be met by a high level of questioning and even ridicule from some online.
> In short, David became a legend only after beating Goliath and not before!
> III. Sean states that 'channelling' was used in the sense of him 'channelling his creativity' - just like Tesla. It is worth pointing out here that Nikola Tesla (as far as I am aware) ended up penniless and his technology mostly was lost/denied/buried as a result of him being naive and directly exploited by the corrupt entities running the military industrial complex at that time. In fact, Donald Trump's uncle, John G. Trump, was apparently the one who led the team that ransacked Tesla's work after his death. So it is highly relevant to highlight the potentiality for exploitation occurring here behind the scenes. Many who have researched the alphabet soup agencies learn that often their behaviour is like that of a serial con artist combined with a thief, murderer and worse. I can only say that if I were Sean I would be doing a HUGE amount of research into ARPANET to learn about their history, intentions and that of those around them at this point - rather than wearing what might turn out to be attractive, metaphysical rose tinted glasses. :)
> Additionally, it is worth repeating here that Sean's metaphysical model of reality appears to have originated almost totally (whether he knows it or not) from the channelled 'ET' entity 'Bashar' (www.bashar.org). That is neither a good, nor bad thing in my mind - but it is worth pointing out as there is indeed a clear connection to channelling of a vastly different form to just channelling excitement.
> IV. Logo. Sean states that the logo is a 2D version of a tesseract/Hypercube. It's been a long time since I studied hyper dimensional form and maths of this kind - but in my mind a hypercube is not commonly associated with the shape in the Decenternet logo. The shape in the logo is more commonly known as a star tetrahedron or 'Merkaba':
> http://www.crystalinks.com/merkaba.html
> The [tesseract/hypercube](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract) does have some connectivity to the idea of tetrahedral geometry, but I am not aware of how it is to be thought of as a higher dimensional version of the star tetrahedron. Maybe I need to go back and watch Bashar's channelled sessions on this subject from a few years ago. ;)
> ...
> There is much more to be said on all of this, of course, since discussion of hyperdimensional geometry and manifestation of infinite parallel realities tends to 'go on a while' .. lol.. However, I think that I have said enough here for now.
> Thanks to all for co-creating this process of discovery and expansion.
So.. As you can see - this is a very interesting topic that combines some of the most relevant issues and threads on our planet today. What do you make of this new interview? Let us know in the comments below! Thanks.
Wishing you well,
Ura Soul
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