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I was musing yesterday whether a technologically-advanced nation state of the future might provide cloud infrastructure like it provides roads/rail/healthcare/e
by kitd 10y ago
I was musing yesterday whether a technologically-advanced nation state of the future might provide cloud infrastructure like it provides roads/rail/healthcare/etc.
Obviously, this only makes sense in a world where individuals as well as corps need to present themselves online as a matter of course, but it might enable eg personal ID or data privacy tools that address many of the problems people have 'donating' their private data to commercial orgs.
- adrianN 10y agoA wet dream for police states. Distribute dumb terminals to government-run cloud servers for free and soon enough the only people who don't make their whole life transparent to the state are the criminals.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoIt's possible. They'd probably do internet cafes and libraries first. That gives them visual surveillance on top of the Internet surveillance. Far as in U.S., there was one satirical poster someone made selling the NSA surveillance program as a free replacement for backup software. ;)