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The idea is of general purpose computing. In past, you could restrict access without restricting most freedoms. Today's world, restricting access means restrict
by trueismywork 7mo ago
The idea is of general purpose computing. In past, you could restrict access without restricting most freedoms. Today's world, restricting access means restricting access to a ggeneral purpose computer. And thats the biggest deal.
- pwg 7mo agoCory Doctorow: Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing Jan 10, 2012 https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html The article does reflect the issue at the time (the media mafia's boogeyman "piracy") and the thought that to prevent piracy, users must be restricted from access to "general purpose computers".
- techblueberry 7mo agoDoes it? If we had real control of our machines it doesn’t feel like this would be an issue.