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This is probably part of the larger scope of the system wanting to require ID to even boot a computer let alone connect to the internet.
by t1234s 4mo ago
This is probably part of the larger scope of the system wanting to require ID to even boot a computer let alone connect to the internet.
- matheusmoreira 4mo agoYeah. Looks like the future they want is complete marginalization of free computers, of free people. The machines will have to be corporation and government owned in order to network and participate in society. If we own the machine, we're excluded. Ostracized. Even the language they use is disgusting. They say we're "tampering" with the system, as though it wasn't ours to begin with. It makes me really sad that this is what we're heading towards.
- skinfaxi 4mo agoThe thing about networks is that we can create our own.
- matheusmoreira 4mo agoThe thing about governments is they are just as tyrannical as the corporations. "Any network we cannot surveil and dominate is banned" is absolutely within the realm of possibility.
- skinfaxi 4mo agoThen the government would be banning the gathering of people. At that point we're pretty fucked.
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- TFNA 4mo agoCitizens creating informal horizontal networks between themselves is threatening to social harmony, and as more states around the world learn from the highly successful Chinese model, they are unlikely to permit the Wild West à la the old-school internet you are thinking about.
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- sathackr 4mo agoThe Mark of the Beast
- deadbabe 4mo agoMore than that, a ban on all general purpose computing. You can only use specific applications downloaded from walled gardens. You cannot write and execute arbitrary code. If you are an engineer, all code must be generated via LLM and it passes through some verification through a centralized security and compliance authority on the way to you. You must be fully licensed. This will be, the end of malware.
- hnav 4mo agoThere are zero days in every piece of software, but malware is already mostly a state-actor-only thing.
- simulator5g 4mo agoThis is a hilarious take
- Tangurena2 4mo agoThe latest Miasma/Shai-Hulud worm will not run if your development system has KOI8-R (Russian) as the primary language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOI8-R https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOI8-R > Kill switch, as always with APT28 malware, is setting the host language to ru_RU.KOI8-R (LANG environment variable). That disables the spread mechanism. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48460507 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48460507 Note: KOI8-U is Ukrainian and would still trigger the worm/trojan/malware.
- simulator5g 4mo agoSo? If I were a US based malware dev that’s what I’d do to avoid detection…
- Tangurena2 4mo agoAs kooky as I thought he was, Stallman seems to be more prophetic each year. His essay The Right to Read seems to be a vision of how knowledge gets locked down. Every American college/university student has been trapped into renting textbooks. Elsevier and Pearson seem to have used that essay as a roadmap. https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/stallman-right-to-read.pdf https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/st... I think he's wrong that DRM violates the 4th Amendment, I contend that it is - first and foremost - a violation of the 3rd Amendment.
- EasyMark 4mo agoIt is. They want to monitor every second of our lives and put it through current computer systems and salivating on what they can glean from it in future generations of AI. All the bureaucrats and politicians crave is control over everything. No privacy is valued other than their own, and they will always use "think of the children" as an excuse.
- x-complexity 4mo ago> No privacy is valued other than their own, and they will always use "think of the children" as an excuse. Until they lose an election using "think of the children", they'll always continue to use it. In terms of political weaponry, it's currently unstoppable.