The only real way I see of swinging the power back to the people is to use encryption in all our personal communications, that includes e-mail, voice, video. Unfortunately there is a very real possibility that the government has access to the CA keys so that it would render any encryption useless.
However, it seems that a new type of quantum key distribution system [1] may allow us citizens to share the keys such that not even the government may be able to get them. I don't really know much about this but it does seem promising. It may be the only way to ensure that only those that we choose can see our data. I would not be surprised though if the government tried to pass laws to make such technology illegal. Just like it tried to make military grade encryption illegal by claiming it was a munitions weapon.[2]
A hostile entity owning the public CAs doesn't render "any" encryption useless--just PKI that trusts those common CAs. We could revert to the PGP signing parties of the 90s, or a variety of other key exchange protocols... just no more relying on a certificate because Thawte, Verisign, or (ha!) Comodo say it's good.
No is not. To you maybe, but not to me. It just looks like a coincidence and that is like I will take it until further evidence emerges. Otherwise we just look like the religious morons whom claim that their religious text is the correct one because it predicted a historical event somewhere in the last two thousand years.
It is revenge of the nerds. I don't know if it is a good thing, bad thing, or it doesn't matter but it sure makes a lot of people feel better. And to be honest, the MBAs do have a lot of it coming to themselves, not all of it, but a lot.
You would think. I hope you are right but people seem a lot more preoccupied with the Kardashians and Lindsay Lohan. Even smart people with college degrees and everything.
A person receiving this implant will be able to receive more than just visual input from the world. He could receive input from the internet, or a virtual reality world. I imagine this is the first step of us moving to the net.
Better or not is a personal preference. But the world it describes (much closer to our time, which also affects the technology), the kind of protagonists (regular folk, not associated with an all-mighty quasi-military governmental structure), the action (more personal, less "submarine in space"), and the issues (more political, and in general more grown-up, than Star Trek) do make it better for some viewers. (Disclaimer: myself included.)
Completely agree. As a guy living along in college some of the best nights would be watching Start Trek TNG. Just the opening was incredible. It made me feel like it really was the future.
BKRGB which was a signage platform I built last year with a partner and sold and ShaiSoft, which sold networking library software that I sold in 2002. I'm not rich because of it but I have tried and succeeded.
It's interesting how you belittle me because my numbers aren't big enough on the Brabble app. If I had bigger numbers could I criticize then?
However, it seems that a new type of quantum key distribution system [1] may allow us citizens to share the keys such that not even the government may be able to get them. I don't really know much about this but it does seem promising. It may be the only way to ensure that only those that we choose can see our data. I would not be surprised though if the government tried to pass laws to make such technology illegal. Just like it tried to make military grade encryption illegal by claiming it was a munitions weapon.[2]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_key_distribution
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy