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This is not really Google's "fault". (trust me I'm not a fan of their cavalier attitudes to beta services and lack of customer support) They are working "in t
by lifeisstillgood 4y ago
This is not really Google's "fault". (trust me I'm not a fan of their cavalier attitudes to beta services and lack of customer support)
They are working "in the future" where every human has access to the virtual world by "right". You cannot cut off someone's gas or phone without huge regulatory hurdles. And we will
see something similar for access to internet
We just aren't there. And that's the problem.
And this conversation should not be about "google should reduce its security" it should be about how do we regulate ISPs and google and facebook and Email providers so that they are on par with the gas company?
Is access to http a basic utility? Access to an email inbox?
In short Internet access is a necessity for access to civil society, and now we work out who pays for it.
it's going to be a fun decade
- lifeisstillgood 4y agoI think at some point we will move to something like a drivers license for the Internet - a government backed assertion that you are person X. A photo ID, a hash of that .png and meta data against a key pair (ie the key pair assigned to the person behind the desk at the DVLA) I am guessing this is what a bunch of companies offering the "photo of you and your id" services are waiting for. Which to me implies it should never be a proprietary solution - anyone know of a FOSS version of this out there? Anyone want to start one ?