Non-Consenual Internet
Have you ever unplugged your network cable to install illegal software? Turned off airport whilst you do something inappropriate at work? Unplugged your xBox so no one would bug you to play games with them? What if you couldn't?
In the next decade we will see total blanket coverage of most of the planet with some form of wireless internet access. Corporations & governments love for people to be online. It's more than a two way street, you know. The small amount of visibility it grants is totally negated by the full exposure you are opening yourself up to. You can screen share with another user on iChat. Where do you think that technology came from? The war on terror has already funded massive government overwatch of all forms of web traffic. No amount of encryption can truly hide what you are doing over the internet from somebody who truly wants to know. So when do we get to the point where the "Turn AIRPORT Off" button vanishes all together? And what the fuck does that mean for us?
Hopefully, surely, there will always be someway to be "off-network". However I forsee application authentication as a probable justification for insuring that practically everyone has to be online to make use of their software. Under the auspices of copyright protection we will live in a permeneant state of online-ness- this will give government and corporate systems an unprecedented level of tracking and visibility into the private lives of everyone who is chained to this machination that is ever encroaching into our lives.
In the next decade we will see total blanket coverage of most of the planet with some form of wireless internet access. Corporations & governments love for people to be online. It's more than a two way street, you know. The small amount of visibility it grants is totally negated by the full exposure you are opening yourself up to. You can screen share with another user on iChat. Where do you think that technology came from? The war on terror has already funded massive government overwatch of all forms of web traffic. No amount of encryption can truly hide what you are doing over the internet from somebody who truly wants to know. So when do we get to the point where the "Turn AIRPORT Off" button vanishes all together? And what the fuck does that mean for us?
Hopefully, surely, there will always be someway to be "off-network". However I forsee application authentication as a probable justification for insuring that practically everyone has to be online to make use of their software. Under the auspices of copyright protection we will live in a permeneant state of online-ness- this will give government and corporate systems an unprecedented level of tracking and visibility into the private lives of everyone who is chained to this machination that is ever encroaching into our lives.
Labels: conspiracy, internet, rant
posted by Sam at
9:07 AM
1 Comments:
Theoretically of course, but if I was using illegal software I'd just use my firewall to filter what applications are sending what data to who. It's already a potent way to catch the latest spyware that slips by my scanners.
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