Excellent analysis Glen...
On 2/10/22 12:30 PM, glen wrote:
Excellent! Transparency is inadequate, though. As with open-source,
transparency reduces to reachability, which facilitates hacking by
obscurity, one of the many kinds of supply chain channels we're seeing
so much of in the news these days. E.g. the recent chainsaw
vulnerability. ... or, perhaps more appropriately, the recent,
*quiet*, Tesla module elision:
https://jalopnik.com/tesla-chip-shortage-fix-was-to-pull-steering-components-1848498652
It's also akin to hiding persnickety little "terms of use" clauses in
huge contracts that nobody reads, then using those obscure, but
totally transparent, clauses to, say, kick you off Youtube or whatnot.
In addition to transparency, you need something like "flatness" ...
like the holographic principle, where everything that's inside you or
your service is visible by the laity on the surface. The unix
philosophy handles this by wrapping little tools as little "monads"
that do one thing, well. Any large, systemically complex package will
prevent such flatness. It can be mitigated with "pipes" (e.g.
<https://www.howtogeek.com/438882/how-to-use-pipes-on-linux/>) or
"data flow" architectures because the flatness lies in their
sequentiality. But the control surfaces for any modern application
prevents such flatness through sequentiality. Everyone insists on
immediate gratification and interruptibility.
The better path is to target *credibility*, rather than verifiability.
But, as our modern political discourse demonstrates, credibility is
susceptible to tribalism. So we need a hybrid approach that balances
sequentiality, walkable depth, and character/credibility.
On 2/10/22 10:45, Stephen Guerin wrote:
Yes, we do have chrome extension that could look for code in any
image in your browser. We're trying to design a network to deploy
BuenWare - is there a better prefix for virally good software
that benefits your digital metabolism and connection to the earth?
We're currently using the extension to be a persistent compute and
storage node on our "acequia" p2p network. It can also screen share
and open the web camera on phone or desktop. Of course, the trick to
all of this is transparency and creating a "sousveillant" network vs
a surveillant. Ala Brin's "Transparent Society" book.
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