Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Sat Dec 31 16:31:41 CST 2011
Great link. I always enjoy Cory. I fear that *you* are correct. -- Stuart On 31 Dec 2011 at 15:32, Arthur Fuller wrote: > I hope not, but fear that this take is correct... > > 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. > > *Update*: Here's a > transcript<https://github.com/jwise/28c3-doctorow/blob/master/transcript.md>, > courtesy of Joshua Wise. > > Arthur > > -- > Cell: 647.710.1314 > > Thirty spokes converge on a hub > but it's the emptiness > that makes a wheel work > -- from the Daodejing > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >