[therobots927]

I agree and with how much money people in this field can make I’m surprised their aren’t more retired hackers banding together to build something like this. Personally I still have a mortgage to pay off but eventually I would like to be involved in something like this.

[rkagerer]

What product(s) do you think present the best opportunity for reinventing today with a genuine, user-centric approach?

Personally I feel it's everything from the ground up - silicon IC's through to device platforms and cloud services. But we need a plan to chip away at the problem one bite at a time.

[therobots927]

Probably a phone OS would be the most impactful. If it had the ability to really cut back on tracking and data sharing by default.

But if you’re talking about building hardware… that feels like something the NSA would be happy to be involved with whether you want them to be or not. I’d vote for an 80/20 solution that gets people protected from some of the most rampant data mining going on by corporations vs. state actors.

The other issue to keep in mind is that the tech ecosystem absolutely will suffocate anything like this by disabling access to their apps / website with this OS. So at the end of the day I really don’t know if there’s a solution to any of this.