Why am I reminded of the passage from Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky where one of the characters says (approximately) "Any ubiquitous computing network wh

Why am I reminded of the passage from Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky where one of the characters says (approximately) "Any ubiquitous computing network where every local node has to run government code inevitably devolves into absolute tyranny."