Zero-Day Exploits

Now that computers have become interconnected and incredibly complex, it is more important than ever for human beings to ensure that our privacy and human rights are protected from "bad actors".

The current structure of the software "industry" does not allow us to have personal authority over our own computing devices.

If you are hoping to rely on your obscurity to protect you from the increasing dangers from this state of affairs, you are playing into the hands of cynical governments, abusive criminals, and others.

If you haven't heard of Stuxnet by now, look it up. You don't even have to go on-line to do that. It has been well-covered in the New York Times, Time magazine, the Washington Post, etc.

Computers are not neutral technologies. They are not just machines for sharing selfies and staying in touch with your friends.

Computers control our nukes, monitor our heartbeats and dispense our drugs in hospitals, control our nuclear power plants, mediate our banking transactions, and so on and on.

Programmers are not gods.

The more we become dependent on computers, the more we need to be able to SEE what is going on, how it is accomplished, and what the repercussions of the various codes are.

Silicon Valley has a conflict with personal freedom as regarding computers and software, because they have business interests, not just in the privacy of their "proprietary" code, but also in the leverage that it gives them with governments, with criminals, with rapacious capitalists.

If you think all zero-day vulnerabilities are "accidental", I think maybe you need to step out of the box that the computer industry has built for you and look a little deeper.

This speed of evolution of code cannot be maintained safely or with true human dignity.

Pokémon GO is not reason enough to give up all of the hard-fought battles for personal freedom and informed consent.

Before you "sign" that next software license agreement, I suggest you actually spend an hour or two (most will take this long to read these days) reading the specific language that they are using.

It's us versus a greedy industry with no scruples and teams of highly specialized lawyers. Who do you think is going to win.

Don't think that the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) is going to help you. They are in bed with all the tech companies and the battles they are fighting may as well be false flags.

We are at a crossroads. Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not watching you.

Good luck out there. Gotta catch 'em all!