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to build technological solutions to prevent encryption There is one way and one way only to do that. Remove all general purpose computing devices from the hand
by EliRivers 11y ago
to build technological solutions to prevent encryption
There is one way and one way only to do that. Remove all general purpose computing devices from the hands of the public, and make it illegal to manufacture or distribute them, or knowledge of how to do so. I can't see it happening, myself.
Cory Doctorow, on the coming war on general purpose computation (although he thought it would be the copyright lobby)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg
- pdkl95 11y ago> he thought it would be the copyright lobby That was only Doctorow's first talk on the subject. He later extended the talk into far broader topics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY_jxXTFEk4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY_jxXTFEk4 (he has given several versions of this talk, and it seems that google has taken down the version I usually link to. sigh)
- TeMPOraL 11y ago> I can't see it happening, myself. It's already been happening for some time, and we're quite far in the process. The mainstream population stops buying computers in favour of mobile devices - tablets and smartphones, which are locked down and dumbed down. Then you have DRM, and the cloud. I fear the next step will be professionalization of software engineering - you may suddenly find yourself in need of an engineering license to be able to legally use a Turing-complete language.
- userbinator 11y agoWhat I find most interesting here is that the government is clearly afraid of people using encryption against them, and yet most people seem to not have considered the thought of others using encryption against them... On that subject: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html