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The Coming Tech-Lash: tech elite will join bankers/oilmen in public demonology
- Zigurd 13y agoI suppose you can't capture the details in a short essay like that, but, sure: If tech companies and their leaders don't come out on the side of the end-user, they will be demonized. Microsoft has suffered that for decades, for trying to kill off open source software and embracing DRM. Since he bought his own island with a volcano, Ellison is one white cat short of being a Bond villian. Now with the NSA scandal, we'll see how the industry lines up. So far, exactly zero major services have offered secure communications or storage products where their end-users can control keys and open source clients that use strong encryption. The longer they fail to put users' data out of reach of any outside access, the less credibility their claims of victimization have.