Dear Ali,
Thanks for the Doctorow video; it was
excellent in coverage of many important topics about liberty and the economic
and political forces that threaten to direct computer technologies for
nefarious purposes. You might also like to know that there are many videos
about Libertarian viewpoints and Ron Paul’s espousal of them here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV7BdpaulFg&feature=related
-Rich
Sincerely,
Rich Cooper
EnglishLogicKernel.com
Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com
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and in case you're not a fan of sitting through video, here's the
article-ized version of the talk:
http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Ali SH <asaegyn+out@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear Ontolog,
Cory Doctorow gave this talk at the recent 28c3 conference - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg&feature=related
For those interested in computers and its applications, it is at the very least
food for thought. I'm curious to hear reactions to his sketch of how computing
is trying to be reigned in.
A related article would be Wired's assessment of the recent SOPA bill: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/civil-liberties-ip/
Best,
Ali
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Cory Doctorow: The coming war on general
computation
The copyright war was just the beginning
The last 20 years of Internet policy have been dominated by the copyright war,
but the war turns out only to have been a skirmish. The coming century will be
dominated by war against the general purpose computer, and the stakes are the
freedom, fortune and privacy of the entire human race.
The problem is twofold: first, there is no known general-purpose computer that
can execute all the programs we can think of except the naughty ones; second,
general-purpose computers have replaced every other device in our world. There
are no airplanes, only computers that fly. There are no cars, only computers we
sit in. There are no hearing aids, only computers we put in our ears. There are
no 3D printers, only computers that drive peripherals. There are no radios,
only computers with fast ADCs and DACs and phased-array antennas. Consequently
anything you do to "secure" anything with a computer in it ends up
undermining the capabilities and security of every other corner of modern human
society.
And general purpose computers can cause harm -- whether it's printing out AR15
components, causing mid-air collisions, or snarling traffic. So the number of
parties with legitimate grievances against computers are going to continue to
multiply, as will the cries to regulate PCs.
The primary regulatory impulse is to use combinations of code-signing and other
"trust" mechanisms to create computers that run programs that users
can't inspect or terminate, that run without users' consent or knowledge, and
that run even when users don't want them to.
The upshot: a world of ubiquitous malware, where everything we do to make things
better only makes it worse, where the tools of liberation become tools of
oppression.
Our duty and challenge is to devise systems for mitigating the harm of general
purpose computing without recourse to spyware, first to keep ourselves safe,
and second to keep computers safe from the regulatory impulse.
Transcript: https://github.com/jwise/28c3-doctorow/blob/master/transcript.md
(CC-BY by Joshua Wise)
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