Step One: Scan All Uploaded Files; Step Two: Compel People to Upload Everything Automatically; Step Three: Scan All Offline Files
Tool of blackmail/espionage with a dragnet impacting billions of people.
Coming soon:
Months ago: Unlike GAFAM, Free Software Serves You, It Does Not Serve Governments and MElons (Overlapping Forces)
Years ago: High-Level Criminals Associate Privacy With Crime Because They Want Privacy Only for Themselves (Control But No Accountability) (enabling trafficking of children for sex is OK when you're a billionaire and possibly a "client")
As each day passes society gets more combative, real security/privacy proponents get painted as "k00ks" or "perverts", and technology becomes more hostile in the sense that it gives full control to the "powerful few" over everybody else. It's not just Apple anymore but GAFAM (see above) and installing/using your own software is demonised as "sideloading" and is thus vocationally a "KKKop" (forbidden). This is a "boiling the frog" pendulum scenario. Soon, American monopolists will leverage this kind of power internationally.
What can possibly go wrong? (Aside from those companies making false accusations against perceived "enemies")
To confront this trend and the people who push in this direction avoid GAFAM and insist on Free software. █
"Representatives for Gates and his global health philanthropy, the Gates Foundation, did not immediately respond to requests for comment," they wrote days ago.




