Saturday, June 8, 2013
Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman
Web-based programs like Google's Gmail will force people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time, according to the free software campaigner.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.stallman
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There is no cloud. The companies want you to store your data on their servers so they can sell your personal information to advertisers and share it with intelligence agencies. I have always been wary of internet-linked devices. I do not have the necessary expertise to fully understand the workings of the web. It has been revealed to us that intelligence agencies are essentially continuously copying the entire internet. For the time being, EOI isn't much of a target due to our lack of readership, but like I said in the PRISM comment, eventually all subject matter of this nature will be sifted through and it's publishers dealt with. I am not afraid of speaking my mind and sharing information. I have never advocated violence to achieve any goal. I condemn the violence perpetrated by the government and its cohorts. They made themselves enemies of truth and democracy. Their positions are indefensible, hence, the attacks on any who would dare to expose the facts. It is interesting to note the inverse relationship between personal privacy and state secrecy.
Back to the proprietary cloud. This is why copyright law is so significant. It's the only possible block on innovating out of the clutches of the corporate behemoths. I just finished Lessig's book from the early oughts, The Future of Ideas. In it, he lays out the history of the web in terms of a commons or open-source platform vs. a controlled system that turns end users into consumers of centralized content. Obviously, he had no way of predicting just how far things would go. The element I found most significant was the trend of innovating out from under regulations on both sides, corporate and populist. As the utterly brainwashed, become increasingly impovershed, the black market will drive pirate development, thereby creating a new kind of people's web, not beholden to corporations or the state.
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