From your lips to The Flying Spaghetti Monster's ears;FaceoffFembot wrote:Nah man, the future is gloriously anti-DRM. Pirate scenes and crack teams ridicule corporate efforts to enshrine the way they want us to use their products, and with the nuclearization of the internets, they become harder and harder to root out.
Power to the people and stuff.
but right now, embedded evil tech is winning.
Everyone gives the government their location data at all times through their phones, and with that comes the content of all their phone conversations, texts, browser history. The U.S. spies have put back doors into usb cables and Western Digital hard drives - everything else, too, most likely; in time, certainly. Power is consolidating around a military-spying-industrial class. Market forces have yet to demonstrate any positive ability to rebuff the violations of our rights.
My mind on the tech question was set by an episode of Stargate ("Tangent"). The moral of the story is: Don't attempt to reverse-engineer a Goa'uld death glider. The more complex and large the tech, the more chances to embed some truly nasty, deeply hidden back doors and contingency routines (BOOM!).
Can she detect she has been stolen? Trivially easy.
Can you wipe out every piece of her code? (drastic, necessary)
You can try, but have you removed ALL of her code?
How can you ever trust that a deep routine won't go off?
- Dale Coba
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