Dan Geer said:
The general-purpose computer must die or we must put everything under
surveillance. Either option is ugly, but 'all of the above' would be
lights-out for people like me, people like you, people like us. We're
playing for keeps now.
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:51 PM, David A. Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you interpret the definition of these terms of general purpose and
surveillance differently, i.e., limit applications to least
privilege, and locally monitor their behavior, then I'd agree. But
this is another
But the difference is who is in final control. In the end, the users of
computers should be in final control, not their makers, or we have given
up essential liberty. We can develop systems which provide suites of
more specialized privileges to particular functions, without giving up