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What Does the Scanner See?
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- PaulHoule 2y agoA key concept here is scalability. Circa 1980 the Soviet Union stationed a platoon of spies in the house across the street from dissident Andrei Sakharov. Potentially this is a full employment program. They could afford to do this for the father of their hydrogen bomb but not do it for everyone. The ability to send out the police or some physical world agent to harass or oppress people is expensive and has to be limited and really if you've got fantasies of an oppressive cyber-state you can imagine something much more feasible. That is, digital world measures such as wrecking somebody's credit score or manipulating their social media feed are believable, and in the current commercial way. My latest "black mirror" experience was that I gave my phone number to the cashier at PetSmart a month and a half ago when I bought a 40 lb bag of kitty litter. After that I received weeks of remarketed ads on YouTube and other video platforms that had my email address (which PetSmart also had in my file.) I still can't get their jingle out of my head. When I ran out I went back because I like their product and I like the price, but I did not give my phone number and told the cashier why.