You say cyberpunk dystopia… I say 1776.
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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
On the bright side, at least our upcoming American cyberpunk dystopia is now more likely to feature a greater prevelance of lone wolf, broke, two bit hackers as a semi-viable lifestyle/‘career path’…
j0ester@lemmy.world 1 week ago
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
… As soon as you find documents from the founding fathers addressing best practices and policies regarding cybersecurity, let me know.
barsoap@lemm.ee 1 week ago
It shouldn’t surpris too much given Mike Pondsmith’s general record of clairvoyance that NetWatch is a European Corp.
And, no, “Vos videmus” totally isn’t a creepy motto. Based out of London, one could almost think that it’s the London CCTV system turned sentient AI.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
All that has to happen for a ‘Blackwall’ analagous scenario is enough undersea cables get cut/sabotaged.
Then you’re looking at a much more localized internet, where actually having a reliable or high bandwidth connection to a very far away place requires you to either have an insane jerry rigged solution, or a lot of money to pay for an increasing valuable, still existing intercontinental line.
Of course, we very much could also end up with a more intentionally constructed type of widespread firewalling as well… they already exist.
China’s great firewall, tons of other countries that have internet and/or social media killswitches…