look, i didn't mention this to rewrite the same posts i wrote over several months. that was when i still thought there was hope for the interests of end users.
but after snowden, rudiger weiss, sprague at the tcg conference etc, i think end user protection is a side show. tcg is about control and authority.
the idea that open entry to the tcg conversation cures the disease of governments accessing end user devices and carriers and vendors bagging user communications is a nice idea. but i see no sign that this is what is happening.
where is the reference to general alexander saying he is persuaded that consumers should have privacy from nsa, or google saying it believes it would be a better world when it can no longer sell user data?
they are not signing up for that model of the virtual universe. they continue to see a world in which they dip into any pond they wish.
watch the video. these folks pour in through every crack in the shell of a pc. they have subverted sim. the device makers appear to design their products to give nsa what it wants.
tcg is a feudal trust architecture. end users have to trust colony supervisors. colony supervisors pay homage to governments.
the reliance isn't egalitarian and the trust isn't distributed.
the aim is to protect the status quo.
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