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<html><head></head><body><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><div>A bit of a slippery slope don't you think? </div><div><br></div><div>--srs (htc one x) </div><br><div id="htc_header">----- Reply message -----<br>From: "michael gurstein" <gurstein@gmail.com><br>To: <governance@lists.igcaucus.org><br>Subject: [governance] FW: [IP] Cory Doctorow: The Full Orwell<br>Date: Sun, Jan 12, 2014 7:58 AM</div></div><br><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dewayne Hendricks
Date: Saturday, January 11, 2014
Subject: Cory Doctorow: The Full Orwell
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
We are Huxleying ourselves into the full Orwell
Try as I might, I can't shake the feeling that 2014 is the year we lose the
Web. The W3C push for DRM in all browsers is going to ensure that all
interfaces built in HTML5 (which will be pretty much everything) will be
opaque to users, and it will be illegal to report on security flaws in them
(because reporting a security flaw in DRM exposes you to risk of prosecution
for making a circumvention device), so they will be riddled with holes that
creeps, RATters, spooks, authoritarians and crooks will be able to use to
take over your computer and fuck you in every possible way.
Link to the full article:
<<a href="http://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/72759474218/we-are-huxleying">http://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/72759474218/we-are-huxleying</a>
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