It's already got one glaring security vulnerability: hubris. At some point you have to start thinking with your gut instinct. The claims are so over the top. It's worth challenging legality of the claim based on legal data retention. You can start with Virginia State laws on data retention which could unravel a totalitarian data claim like this. Each State has variants of their own data retention laws to protect the public from Big Data grabs. In fact, I'm not sure if it's been done, but it's worth looking into Utah's data retention laws to see if there is a conflict with the existence of the Data Center. Any system this top heavy is prone for a big magnetic eraser. It's like pride going before the fall or a law of physics. Its as if the proposal has to be *really* offensive to personal privacy and look really intimidating to get something on black budget.
I ask you to consider which customers are getting thrown away. I challenge you to consider Microsoft's recent admissions about forking over MSN records, Skype interactions, and anything else you would consider private communication directly into the hands of the US government. I challenge you to think about an always-on console with required live-stream internet access. Do some thinking. It's not that far of a toss to see a kind of CALEA made window into the XBox user world. Anyone remember the potential for "terrorism communications" from the multiplayer functions made a year or so ago by a military intel agency? For a creative director to try on some old East German arrogance to stay on the platform and compete to work the project is pretty telling.
That's a local attitude I see in Seattle with government business contractors. Boeing told locals they're going to live with drones in their backyards because they need the federal contract by openly killing a drone ban bill in Olympia. Someone at IBM told me upon meeting he works in Seattle city council member Bruce Harrell's office. He later clarified he actually works for IBM and is trying to score the SPD's predictive policing database construct to reform racially biased policing. Has anyone read Edwin Black's, IBM and the Holocaust? Predictive policing is going to use US Census data. This is an area with enmeshed conflicts of interest with public affairs. These businesses don't care if it will actually achieve the aim of public affairs interests, they just want the business. They get a pass from the local Chambers of Commerce. Corporatized business is the rule not the aberration. I'd call it corruption, but when society gives you a free pass it's better to just find an academic term to describe what's going on.
I sense that if you see this attitude on public display, MS is probably dealmaking with some privatized national security interests to build in some BS that's going to lead to information surveillance.
That's interesting. Everett is about 102 miles from the US Canadian border. If CBP and Canada's mounties were pushing their administrative luck that day they would move in on Boeing adjacent bedroom communities on the Puget Sound and go house to house collecting laptops. If they got really bold they might stretch their luck right into Everett and sieze all of Boeings electronics. If they were insane they'd go an extra 30 miles and try door-to-door laptop sweeps right up to Seattle's Eastide communities (Redmond, Bellevue, Medina, Lynnwood,Kirkland) where Microsoft and Google affiliates are located.
Engineers like challenges, right? Try to do it without static biometric ID. I know you can. Because... the Internet for over 20 years has not required that as a standard and users won't trust you for asking that much of them.
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It's already got one glaring security vulnerability: hubris. At some point you have to start thinking with your gut instinct. The claims are so over the top. It's worth challenging legality of the claim based on legal data retention. You can start with Virginia State laws on data retention which could unravel a totalitarian data claim like this. Each State has variants of their own data retention laws to protect the public from Big Data grabs. In fact, I'm not sure if it's been done, but it's worth looking into Utah's data retention laws to see if there is a conflict with the existence of the Data Center. Any system this top heavy is prone for a big magnetic eraser. It's like pride going before the fall or a law of physics. Its as if the proposal has to be *really* offensive to personal privacy and look really intimidating to get something on black budget.
I ask you to consider which customers are getting thrown away. I challenge you to consider Microsoft's recent admissions about forking over MSN records, Skype interactions, and anything else you would consider private communication directly into the hands of the US government. I challenge you to think about an always-on console with required live-stream internet access. Do some thinking. It's not that far of a toss to see a kind of CALEA made window into the XBox user world. Anyone remember the potential for "terrorism communications" from the multiplayer functions made a year or so ago by a military intel agency? For a creative director to try on some old East German arrogance to stay on the platform and compete to work the project is pretty telling. That's a local attitude I see in Seattle with government business contractors. Boeing told locals they're going to live with drones in their backyards because they need the federal contract by openly killing a drone ban bill in Olympia. Someone at IBM told me upon meeting he works in Seattle city council member Bruce Harrell's office. He later clarified he actually works for IBM and is trying to score the SPD's predictive policing database construct to reform racially biased policing. Has anyone read Edwin Black's, IBM and the Holocaust? Predictive policing is going to use US Census data. This is an area with enmeshed conflicts of interest with public affairs. These businesses don't care if it will actually achieve the aim of public affairs interests, they just want the business. They get a pass from the local Chambers of Commerce. Corporatized business is the rule not the aberration. I'd call it corruption, but when society gives you a free pass it's better to just find an academic term to describe what's going on. I sense that if you see this attitude on public display, MS is probably dealmaking with some privatized national security interests to build in some BS that's going to lead to information surveillance.
That's interesting. Everett is about 102 miles from the US Canadian border. If CBP and Canada's mounties were pushing their administrative luck that day they would move in on Boeing adjacent bedroom communities on the Puget Sound and go house to house collecting laptops. If they got really bold they might stretch their luck right into Everett and sieze all of Boeings electronics. If they were insane they'd go an extra 30 miles and try door-to-door laptop sweeps right up to Seattle's Eastide communities (Redmond, Bellevue, Medina, Lynnwood,Kirkland) where Microsoft and Google affiliates are located.
Engineers like challenges, right? Try to do it without static biometric ID. I know you can. Because ... the Internet for over 20 years has not required that as a standard and users won't trust you for asking that much of them.