Beyond the War on General Purpose Computing: What's Inside the Box
Cory Doctorow details beyond the War on General Purpose Computing: What's Inside the Box.
Summary
Architecture and Background
Beyond the War on General Purpose Computing: What's Inside the Box? Cory Docotorow Author, Activist, Blogger, Co-Editor of BoingBoing.net Assuming the failure of all the calls to regulate PCs and the Internet because people might do bad things with them, what then?
Vulnerability Analysis
Civil war, that's what. The su/user split we inherited from multiuser systems has given us a false intuition: that owners of computers, and not their users, should set policy on them.
Exploitation and Demonstrations
How will that play out when your car, house, legs, ears and heart are driven by computers that you don't own? Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger -- the co-editor of BoingBoing (boingboing.net) and the author of Tor Teens/HarperCollins UK novels like FOR THE WIN and the bestselling LITTLE BROTHER.
Remediation and Defensive Strategies
He is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in London.
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