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Originally Posted by Schroeder
I don't use Google and I don't have a smart phone.
The problem is that it seems that all forms of modern communication are spied upon so in theorie we would have to abandon all forms of communication in order to avoid espionage. That's not going to work...
I don't like were the surveillance stuff is going (actually it makes the GESTAPO, Stasi, KGB etc. look like amateurs) but I also fail to see how it could be stopped without removing all governments, secret services and companies that are involved in any form of communication.  |
Problem is that all important servers are located in the US. The US has a tremendous strategic advantage there which started to grow since Bill Gates founded Microsoft and Silicon Valley rose a bit later, so to speak. With much computer technology production gone from the US to China, the web infrastructure still remains to be what it was from the beginning: US-dominated. And they will never give up that advantage without putting up a hell of a battle. Even if they would want, the Europeans would not have a serious means to raise an alternative to that, since even if the Europeans would start to raise their own servers, the US and most of the non-European world would boycott them, practically all global business would, since adapting to the new standards, if they would be there, would cost vast amounts of money and changes in their own data infrastructure.
Sensible data in deed should not processed electronically, Schroeder. The Russian FSA (national secret service) has switched back to using mechanically typewriters for exactly these reasons. Neither virusses nor spies with a USB stick nor the NSA listening in via satellite or whatever have a chance there. I myself since years do not do certain communications and do not send certain info/messages over telephone and web anymore for sure.