Even not being a network engineer for a large company, I can be sure that even the billion dollar babies can change. Closed Unices were as proven as anything and now we have the free ones.
I'm not telling what will happen. It's just that given enough time, the big players can also experiment with pretty much anything.
Here in Finland and other countries in northern Europe we have a long tradition in collecting everything in databases. University students get into several databases which include personal information like name, age, parents, social status, cell phone number. Actually everything but hair color.
I just can't see any problem. There is no privacy to lose any more. Why should I care about federal registers while credit card companies know everything I buy, my ISP knows where I spend my time and those smart fellows who keep closest APT repository online know my favorite editor. Probably I couldn't even do moon shine without getting into dozen registers.
We are filed way beyond anything my glorious filehappy homeland can imagine.
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Even not being a network engineer for a large company, I can be sure that even the billion dollar babies can change. Closed Unices were as proven as anything and now we have the free ones. I'm not telling what will happen. It's just that given enough time, the big players can also experiment with pretty much anything.
Here in Finland and other countries in northern Europe we have a long tradition in collecting everything in databases. University students get into several databases which include personal information like name, age, parents, social status, cell phone number. Actually everything but hair color.
I just can't see any problem. There is no privacy to lose any more. Why should I care about federal registers while credit card companies know everything I buy, my ISP knows where I spend my time and those smart fellows who keep closest APT repository online know my favorite editor. Probably I couldn't even do moon shine without getting into dozen registers.
We are filed way beyond anything my glorious filehappy homeland can imagine.
Isn't it nice?