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And you thought "Key Escrow" or "Chat Control" was bad! Future maximum-security states may just require every mobile phone to have an explosive charge pre-inst
by gojomo 2y ago
And you thought "Key Escrow" or "Chat Control" was bad!
Future maximum-security states may just require every mobile phone to have an explosive charge pre-installed, with the detonation-codes only available to the authorities, of course.
Then when they detect a device in active use by a [terrorist|child-pornographer|subversive|tax-evader], ka-blewie! Problem solved at the press of a button.
See also: 'Black Mirror' s3e6, 'Hated in the Nation'
- guerrilla 2y agoI have a better idea. Every politician has a bomb collar tied to their approval rating. ;)
- dredmorbius 2y agoCookie cutters: <https://allthetropes.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age https://allthetropes.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age>
- cryptonector 2y agoItalo Calvino wrote a short story about politicians having to sacrifice parts of their bodies in order to hold positions of power, like you'd have to have a hand chopped off to serve one term, a leg to serve another, and so on.
- cryptonector 2y agoStanislav Lem wrote a short story about a tyrant that made his subjects wear highly enriched uranium earmuffs so that if more than two of them got together they would assemble a critical mass. https://culture.pl/en/work/uranium-ears-stanislaw-lem https://culture.pl/en/work/uranium-ears-stanislaw-lem