The Coming Civil War Over General-Purpose Computing: Cory Doctorow at Google
In December 2011 Cory Doctorow gave the 28C3 keynote “The coming war on general computation”. His argument was that regulators who want “a computer that runs every program except the one that bothers me” can only get one thing, a computer with spyware built in. Eight months later he gave this sequel at Google, after trying it out at the Long Now Foundation and DEFCON. Its premise is that the freedom side wins the first war, and its question is what follows....