"we are at the cusp of a reclaiming our heritage of being connected to each other and connected to the world"
He has a wrong idea of the Internet if he things its goal is to connect people. The Internet's job is the exact opposite to divide people. Divide and conquer was the Roman Empire's strategy and guess what they ended up being the longest reigning empire in history.
Take a look on the Internet, it's mostly hate speech: racism (all races are targeted not just blacks, in-fact whites are the most targeted), sexism, etc. and of course political propaganda which expands to more hate speech, just take a look at articles relating to Greece. Other than that, the Internet's main use is to distribute pornography i.e. to promote a primitive sex culture which is convenient for business. The Internet is not a good cause.
x86 is probably going the same way as Sparc. x86 is powerful but too powerful to be used on mobile devices and doesn't scale very well on desktops when it comes to parallel processing.
Exactly what was I going to say. Nobody can prove that the source code is deliberately obfuscated, I'm not even sure myself. However the source code is often difficult to read, and searching for backdoors is not any easier than running the binary through an assembly debugger.
Only problem having the source code does not mean you can actually understand it. A lot of open source code is obfuscated, sometimes I'm wondering if its deliberate, a transcompiler from a high level language to C can produce more readable code than some of these projects. Don't believe me, just take a look at the source code for libc++, I've run into bugs in libc++ hence I had to read through the source code and haven't seen anything more obfuscated in my life. I wouldn't be able to tell looking through millions of lines of C/C++ code if the software is spying on me or not, seriously I would have more luck disassembling the binary and trying to make sense of that, or using some monitoring/spy tool which tells me what the software is doing, what sockets/files are open etc.
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"we are at the cusp of a reclaiming our heritage of being connected to each other and connected to the world" He has a wrong idea of the Internet if he things its goal is to connect people. The Internet's job is the exact opposite to divide people. Divide and conquer was the Roman Empire's strategy and guess what they ended up being the longest reigning empire in history. Take a look on the Internet, it's mostly hate speech: racism (all races are targeted not just blacks, in-fact whites are the most targeted), sexism, etc. and of course political propaganda which expands to more hate speech, just take a look at articles relating to Greece. Other than that, the Internet's main use is to distribute pornography i.e. to promote a primitive sex culture which is convenient for business. The Internet is not a good cause.
x86 is probably going the same way as Sparc. x86 is powerful but too powerful to be used on mobile devices and doesn't scale very well on desktops when it comes to parallel processing.
Exactly what was I going to say. Nobody can prove that the source code is deliberately obfuscated, I'm not even sure myself. However the source code is often difficult to read, and searching for backdoors is not any easier than running the binary through an assembly debugger.
Only problem having the source code does not mean you can actually understand it. A lot of open source code is obfuscated, sometimes I'm wondering if its deliberate, a transcompiler from a high level language to C can produce more readable code than some of these projects. Don't believe me, just take a look at the source code for libc++, I've run into bugs in libc++ hence I had to read through the source code and haven't seen anything more obfuscated in my life. I wouldn't be able to tell looking through millions of lines of C/C++ code if the software is spying on me or not, seriously I would have more luck disassembling the binary and trying to make sense of that, or using some monitoring/spy tool which tells me what the software is doing, what sockets/files are open etc.