Can you trust your computer?

squigian · 05-27-06, 04:40 PM

All this centralised server business reminds me of Aquinas from Deus Ex, a huge mainframe designed to monitor all information on the internet under the pretense of catching 'terrorists' and giving the end user more bandwith.

Someone will make a crack or info disruptor at some point. Knowing Microsoft, it will pretty easy to do. Also, if need be I will never connect to the internet, until I have backed up sensitive files and deleted the originals. By sensitive files, I mean anything that could be used to send targeted advertisements to me or anything quasi-legal (burners etc.).

In the end, this will boil down to wasted money and increased suspicion of corporations. I recommend everyone play Deus Ex sometime; bear in mind it was made BEFORE 9/11.
This is not good.

05-27-06, 04:40 PM	#33
squigian Helmsman Join Date: May 2006 Location: London, UK Posts: 107 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	All this centralised server business reminds me of Aquinas from Deus Ex, a huge mainframe designed to monitor all information on the internet under the pretense of catching 'terrorists' and giving the end user more bandwith. Someone will make a crack or info disruptor at some point. Knowing Microsoft, it will pretty easy to do. Also, if need be I will never connect to the internet, until I have backed up sensitive files and deleted the originals. By sensitive files, I mean anything that could be used to send targeted advertisements to me or anything quasi-legal (burners etc.). In the end, this will boil down to wasted money and increased suspicion of corporations. I recommend everyone play Deus Ex sometime; bear in mind it was made BEFORE 9/11. This is not good.