I’m sure the majority of you are aware of last week’s iCloud scandal that resulted in many photos of nude celebrities such as Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton being leaked to the world wide web. Right well as it turns out iCloud was not breached, but rather individual accounts were targeted and hacked. However the fact that the images were stored in a remote storage server (believed to be floating high in the sky somewhere, when it’s likely to be sitting in a giant server building in the US), means that the images are far more vulnerable. Ted Nelson formulated a new model for how online networks could be structured called the Nelsonian Network, as discussed in this week’s symposium. Nelson’s vision requires each internet user to have a physical hard drive located within the home (for example), to be used in replacement of remote servers. In addition, the Nelsonian Network would be comprised of two-way links, instead of one-way links. Meaning the context of every material is preserved as every copied material knows where it is and when it is being used. Does this mean the Nelsonian Network could have prevented last week’s photo leak? Although there would still be of course, a way to duplicate material without creating a link in the Nelsonian Network, the presence of personal storage in replacement of online storage would have added an extra level of security, making the task of hacking the photos of others far more challenging as it would hacking require remote access.