  As the shortcomings of our current Internet become more and more obvious,
researchers have started creating alternative approaches for the Internet of
the future. Their design goals are mainly content-orientation, security,
support for mobility and cloud computing. The probably most popular
architecture is called Content Centric Networking. Every communication is
treated as a distribution of content and caches are used within the network to
improve the effectiveness. While the performance gain of Content Centric
Networks is undoubted, there are questions about security and especially
privacy since it is not one of its main design principle. In this work, we
compare the Content Centric Networking approach with the current Internet with
respect to security and privacy. We analyze improvements that have been made
and new problems that have yet to be resolved. The Internet of the future could
be content-oriented, so it is essential to identify potential security and
privacy issues that are inherent to the architecture early on.
