On Sun, 20 Mar 2016 22:26:26 -0400, Bald Eagle wrote:

> Winston's Confession - 0:45 - Winston confesses to thoughtcrime. Just as
> with the rest of the confessions, he is forced to confesses to crimes he
> never actually committed.
> http://www.apfn.org/audio/1984-Winstons-Confession.mp3
> 
> Of course:
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/20/
mindreading_mri_spots_letters_in_the_brain/
> 
> if they have #read, it's only a matter of time before they devise #open,
> #write, #erase, #format, #copy, #append, etc.

For me, this is kinda like talking about weakening encryption.

Just because governments may want to mandate weak encryption for law 
enforcement purposes completely forgets that there are people outside 
their jurisdiction who will create such encryption programs, and those 
programs will most certainly be used by the people they want to target 
the most.

All you do is drive the technology further underground, or outside the 
legal reach of those who wish to control it.

It ain't going to be stopped.  Better to understand how it works and be 
fully conversant in the technology than to be ignorant of it or to 
pretend it doesn't exist.

Jim

-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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