>>You raise a good and very common objection. The simple response is this: all >>technologies can be re-appropriated by governments or other groups for their >>own purposes.… << Actually I disagree with the question.
The current setup gives governments and intelligence agencies 100% freedom to listen in and track users of cellular networks. As cellular based tracking improves and becomes more wide spread, this situation is only going to get worse. The distributed approach at least gives the user some kind of choice, and the Snowball implementation will let them benefit from propagation over cellular networks even if they choose not to connect to them directly. >>Avoiding the carriers entirely for exchanging data will be a big hit. The >>only issue is, can this be done?<< Today this simply can’t be done on a wide scale. Not because of any limitations in the hardware, but because of the tightly controlled and badly fragmented security regimes (code signing certificates, etc) that currently exists on mobile handsets. If Android is a open as promised, then I will be able to do all my research and development here, and deploy on the more expensive-to- develop-locked-down platforms in the future. I also hope that Android gives the rest of the industry a good kick in the teeth, and force them into opening up their platforms. ;-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
