web3 advocate We can see that the decentralized web offers greater resilience and security compared to web 2.0, thanks to the underlying blockchain-based technology.
Web 2.0, which first emerged in the early 2000s, focused on user-generated content, rich user interfaces, and collaborative services, but a wave of new security threats has emerged, including malware, phishing, social engineering, spoofing, and cross-site. also brought Scripting, SQL injection, data breaches, and more.
A term that includes several technologies such as cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and DAOs, Web3 certainly gives the impression of making such threats a thing of the past. It smoothes out many of the flaws of its predecessors, such as blockchain.
But in reality, web3 is no more secure than Web 2.0 and has already created a new playground for opportunistic cybercriminals. This represents a change in what the Internet can do and how it is used, but the fundamentals of how the Internet works remain the same.
new and not improved
Despite the promise of being fully decentralized, web3’s user-facing components primarily work with Web 2.0 technologies such as APIs and endpoints, even though they are built on blockchain technology. increase. This means that users of web3 services and decentralized apps (“dApps”) will continue to rely on legacy technologies to conduct transactions, and ultimately web3 will see cross-border attacks from DNS hijacking. Down to the platform means it is vulnerable to all the classic security issues that plagued its predecessor. Site scripting. The Web3 company also has to communicate with users primarily through his Web 2.0 technologies such as email and online messaging, which are also prone to traditional security issues.