throwaw999

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by throwaw999 6y ago
It's funny you say that given I live in an EU country (which is not Hungary) and I strongly disagree with this sentiment.
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by throwaw999 6y ago
It's really optimistic to think mass rollout of Apple/Google protocol wouldn't be abused. Once government makes it compulsory to use such app in some scenarios (and society actually agrees to do that instead of protesting it
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by throwaw999 6y ago
I'd be happy to learn which governments in your opinion wouldn't abuse such power.
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by throwaw999 6y ago
Can't wait until few years down we learn this data has been abused to harass political opponents in some way. Or when someone runs experiment to pull everyone's data and use ML to predict crimes (Minority Report style). It's
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by throwaw999 6y ago
And how would you know if there was a backdoor that allows the government to pull anyone's data? Even if the app is validated by reliable third party in current version, there's no mechanism stopping a malicious update in few mont
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by throwaw999 6y ago
I'm not saying he wants kids to die young, please don't strawman me. I think Gates career as CEO points into direction he enjoys acquiring and wielding power. He stepped down from being CEO in 2008, this was long after Windows won
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by throwaw999 6y ago
I'm not convinced if Gates actually cares about the world. I find his transformation from one of the disliked CEOs of most despised companies into some sort of high tech messiah hard to believe. The phrase "Embrace, Extend, Exti