I am struggling with the answer to this - clearly privacy is facing a fundamental rewrite. Regulation of this all-seeing-oracle is all but impossible - the sheer numbers of people and requests make policing it impossible (and that's when it was a secret. I would love to know how Snowden affected a spike in requests to NSA from every Branch of government)
Anyway it's all of nothing as far as I can see - some as yet unspecified technical assurance of anonymity, or free for-all - a world where access to traffic analysis is open, anyone can see everyone else's traffic. And spying on your lover is a bit obvious when her service tells her ten minutes after you grep the logs.
I just cannot envisage any of the three actually working - but I am sure that given a few more rounds of Moores law, it won't simply be state actors in the game.
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I am struggling with the answer to this - clearly privacy is facing a fundamental rewrite. Regulation of this all-seeing-oracle is all but impossible - the sheer numbers of people and requests make policing it impossible (and that's when it was a secret. I would love to know how Snowden affected a spike in requests to NSA from every Branch of government)
Anyway it's all of nothing as far as I can see - some as yet unspecified technical assurance of anonymity, or free for-all - a world where access to traffic analysis is open, anyone can see everyone else's traffic. And spying on your lover is a bit obvious when her service tells her ten minutes after you grep the logs.
I just cannot envisage any of the three actually working - but I am sure that given a few more rounds of Moores law, it won't simply be state actors in the game.