Friday 27 August 2010

Steve Jobs Is Watching You: Apple Seeking to Patent Spyware

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  1. as someone who learned to program computers in the late 70s and early 80s on an Apple ][+ computer, it has been EXTREMELY frustrating to watch the direction that personal computing has been taking for the last 20 years: towards more and more centralization and control. gmail is free, but at what cost do we move towards a paradigm that puts a corporation in control of our personal communications. i saw some of the potential destructive power of this in the early 00s when a politically subversive writing group that i was a member of was "unplugged" from the net by yahoo without so much as a notice or apology of any kind. no response from the company and nowhere to appeal the decision. pointing and clicking our way towards totalitarianism and technocratic hegemony. DANGER!!!

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