[mikewarot]

I think that even if Cory got his perfect digital paradise, and we all ran our own servers, held our own data, and somehow had perfect encryption... it would be gone within days because of Linus Torvalds, and his failure to learn from Andrew S. Tanenbaum, which compounded on the earlier mistakes of Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie et al.

Our operating systems have no balls. They blindly submit to the whims of any program we care to run. By design, a very out of date design that lived in the almost paradise of classrooms and corporations with lots of people who just wanted to get stuff done, cooperating.

The IBM XT with dual floppy diskettes was the most secure that general purpose computing could ever get.

I'd really appreciate if someone could change my mind, it's damned depressing knowing our best days are behind us.