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>>: Are unpiratable, unbreakable, absolutely secure systems possible?
>> Is there a Santa Claus? Is privacy an illusion, a commodity, a process,
>> a drama? -Ric
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>An interesting question.
And probably one of the central quandries of the near future. Consider
some technological developments coming up shortly: complete control of
the human genome, of human biology. Computing/communication systems
with nearly infinite storage, nearly infinite processing power, nearly
infinite connectivity. Near-infinite power/fuel/resources. Everything
closely meshed. We WILL all be linked in a wireless net, like neurons
in a planetary brain, All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace, the
Net as a whole monitoring the bioactivity of its component nodes [us]
to keep us healthy, alive. To live, will be to be connected.
In that kind of environment, privacy is suicide - or secession, escape,
expatriation, budding. Will we be a hive-mind, with small dissident
cells disconnecting from the main hive to fly off, establishing new
hives under other suns? Will individuality be meaningful or possible
in a totally-connected world? I dunno. I *do* know that in a short
time, the political/religious/economic disputes we now engage in will
be about as funny as counting angels on pinheads. We're well prepared
to fight past intellectual wars, not future ones. Bother.
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