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Four years ago, Moxie Marlinspike offered a good explanation of why this "vote with your feet" approach doesn't really work, at DEFCON 18. His talk is called "C
by CodeMage 9y ago
Four years ago, Moxie Marlinspike offered a good explanation of why this "vote with your feet" approach doesn't really work, at DEFCON 18. His talk is called "Changing Threats to Privacy" and I highly recommend watching it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoeNbZlxfUM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoeNbZlxfUM
If you're impatient, you can skip the first 10 minutes and 40 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoeNbZlxfUM#t=10m40s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoeNbZlxfUM#t=10m40s
- ReligiousFlames 9y agoThis almost assures some quite terrible conclusions in the long-term: When it becomes technologically possible to interface electronics into our brains, corporations will have almost unprecedented opportunities to do some really terrible things directly when the world becomes socially-pressured to be neurally-connected. I say "almost" because the manufacturing of consent and desires exist now and it is popularly believed to "apply other people but never me," a direct connection has the potential to make this manipulation cheaper and stimulate the brain in ways a glowing screen looks like banging rocks together.
- jerf 9y agohttps://youtu.be/IFe9wiDfb0E https://youtu.be/IFe9wiDfb0E And I'll add this text just to say this is very relevant to what you said and not just a drive-by spam drop.
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