"It is the news that internet users do not want to hear: the worldwide web is in danger of collapsing around us.
"Patrick Gelsinger, the chief technology officer for computer chip maker Intel, told a conference in San Francisco that the internet could no longer cope with the traffic streaming across its network.
"Mr Gelsinger said the internet's infrastructure was based on a 30-year-old model and could not manage today's heavy workload and remain secure."
Read the full report in today's Guardian.
Comment: Intel's solution? Use a great new superstructure to make the web safer - a great new superstructure that, coincidentally, happens to be funded by Intel.
It's a superb PR move on their part, since scare stories like this will receive coverage in places they can't normally get to, but how is the ordinary user supposed to differentiate between a real threat and a corporate ploy?
