Submission + - Bruce Schneier: IT for Oppression (schneier.com) 2
jrepin writes: Whether it's Syria using Facebook to help identify and arrest dissidents or China using its "Great Firewall" to limit access to international news throughout the country, repressive regimes all over the world are using the Internet to more efficiently implement surveillance, censorship, propaganda, and control. They're getting really good at it, and the IT industry is helping. We're helping by creating business applications — categories of applications, really — that are being repurposed by oppressive governments for their own use.
the internet is just... (Score:1)
...a bing bunch of wires all connected together
not surprising that it gets used for an application that would otherwise require a bunch of wires all connected together
Low hanging fruits (Score:1)
The clueless masses uses the default settings and the default installed software. Several things can be improved right now,