UPDATE: 2.9 billion information, together with Social Safety numbers, stolen in knowledge hack: What to know
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Readers know that I’m demise on the digital revolution. I regard it as an equal catastrophe to the creation of nuclear weapons. Each can, and more than likely will, destroy our lives, nuclear weapons by bodily destroying us, and the digital revolution by destroying our freedom.
The digital revolution is the muse, already in place, for the police state, and it is going to be a complete police state far worse than the one in George Orwell’s 1984. The truth that the nerds who got here up with the digital revolution have been too silly to see the results signifies that tech persons are actually not very good. Each time man performs God catastrophe outcomes.
For the final three days I’ve been experiencing digital Hell. The Web has been down for 3 days and there’s no data. The corporate offers such minimal customer support that it has been tough even to succeed in a robotic. You need to depart a quantity for a name again as “all our representatives are busy serving to different prospects.” When the decision comes you be taught that there’s an outage in a big space and given an estimated restore time. They put you on a message record for mobile phone texts. The restore time estimates lengthened 4 instances from August 13 into August 14 and have now ceased. The morning of the 14th a textual content knowledgeable me that my service was restored. It wasn’t. I referred to as the service supplier who, after a name again, finally was capable of verify that the service was not restored.
What has happed, I imagine, is that with the intention to increase the corporate’s earnings and thus the “efficiency bonuses” of the executives and board, the corporate spends minimal cash on upkeep and has changed its personal restore servicemen with outdoors contractors, reporting the associated fee financial savings as earnings. In different phrases, the corporate is being sucked dry by its executives. Furthermore, upkeep and enhancements may need been deferred so lengthy that elements for the present gear are not accessible or are arduous to come back by. That is America as we speak.
I drove a number of miles to a county library to verify emails and located one saying my service was restored. In fact, it wasn’t. I attempted to verify overseas information sources to see what was happening, as US media is ineffective. The library’s firewall wouldn’t let me hook up with some websites. Researchers have informed me that Trump’s few accomplishments throughout his first time period can not be discovered on-line aside from just a few branded disinformation by “reality checkers.” To spell it out for you, a fictional world of false narratives is being created for us whereas we sit there, insouciant as all the time, scrolling our cell telephones.
Within the outdated analog world this was inconceivable. Each newspaper had a morgue. Each library had printed proof as did everybody who had books, newspapers, magazines. Immediately the knowledge is in a cloud topic to denial of entry and erasure. Google is placing our precise historical past within the Reminiscence Gap and creating a brand new fictional historical past in step with the official narratives. That is the value we pay for the power to scroll cell telephones.
Within the midst of my Web frustration, BMW’s software program engineers added one other. My 6-year outdated BMW’s display flashed “hazard, tire inflation drawback.” I’m knowledgeable I can drive 80 mph, ten miles above Interstate pace restrict, however should attend to the issue. I suppose there could be some hazard on a German autobahn at 150 mph on beneath inflated tires, however on observe weekends we all the time let air out of our tires for higher grip. I by no means had any drawback on beneath inflated tires on the 135-140 mph I might attain on the brief straightaways.
To repair the issue, you must attend to all 4 tires. However you’re removed from completed. The software program can inform when inflation falls beneath the required quantity, but it surely can not inform while you inflate to the required quantity. In different phrases, you may’t flip the warning off. The software program doesn’t imagine you. You need to show it to the software program by driving the automotive a distance so the system can recalibrate its tire inflation readings to substantiate you aren’t taking a straightforward method out by turning off the warning.
It wasn’t potential for the great analog automobiles I needed to waste an individual’s time like this any greater than it was potential for an organization’s “customer support” division to waste hours of a buyer’s time with what was in analog days completed in a three-minute (answered by the third ring) landline phone name that all the time related. Furthermore the one that answered the telephone was not a robotic and was able to dealing with no matter your drawback was, and also you didn’t have to attend one other 20 minutes to succeed in the particular person within the division that dealt with solely the one drawback. Strive it your self, name your financial institution, your Web service. That is what you’ll get: would you like workplace hours, billing, to open an account, to shut an account, to alter an appointment, technical assist or restore? You even have to point whether or not you communicate English or Spanish, one other indication of how far we’re superior in shedding our nation. Clearly, if there may be any assimilation, it’s white Individuals assimilating to Immigrant-invaders.
I’m not simply ranting. I’m declaring essential and significant information. The digital revolution has permitted companies to shift the price of buyer relations to the client. The client pays for it in hours of wasted time and the stress of frustration. Even while you lastly get a reside particular person, it’s somebody in Asia you may barely perceive and whose responses are automated and sometimes tough to realign to your drawback.
The digital revolution has completely destroyed our privateness and our safety. I’ve a discover in entrance of me from a monetary company that reads:
“The sorts of private data we gather and share . . . can embrace: identify, telephone quantity, house and e-mail addresses, marital standing, member of the family data, Social Safety quantity, driver’s license quantity, and driving information, healthcare data, credit score data, and credit score scores.”
In different phrases, they put your complete identification on the Web the place any hacker can steal your id, open accounts and bank cards in your identify, and hack into your financial institution and funding accounts. I’m informed that I can “restrict some however not all sharing.”
Regardless of the privateness safety of the US Structure, the digital revolution permits the NSA, the FBI, any overseas intelligence service, the State Division, Homeland Safety, and nearly anybody else to spy on us and not using a warrant and to compile a file on every of us containing our contacts, studying pursuits, purchases, journey, political orientation, affairs, and so forth.
Dumbshit nerds at Stanford College have really created the power to create a video of an individual talking in his personal voice with lips matching the phrases talking no matter offense authorities need to arrest him for. Think about a protection lawyer attempting to persuade a traditional American jury that what they’re seeing with their very own eyes is a fabrication.
Amongst Individuals there doesn’t look like any consciousness of what’s off limits if freedom is to outlive. I’m satisfied that no matter its advocates intend, the consequence of Synthetic Intelligence is to displace people from human capabilities and to commit us all to rule by tyrants. The few, tiny advantages of AI are usually not well worth the destruction of human independence and freedom.
But there isn’t any method off this street to pure Hell and the destruction of mankind.
