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(Sets up the soap box...Climbs on it. (Ow, my hips!) Picks up megaphone...(Testing....Testing...) Dodges tomato....)
Finished the book. Waaay too long winded. Should have been 100 pages shorter.
On the first part - We got to where we are (malware, viruses, zombies) because most end unit devices were set-up to allow automated remote programs to run on end unit devices. Ladies, Gentlemen, and Stooges, why do you think Java exists!!! It's a variant of C designed explicitly for running programs on a remote machine!!! And everybody thought that it was GOOD! Offload the processing onto the <other> machine. Save money and bandwidth. Steal the machine! (Or at least part of it.) It's OK when the results are what you want, a horror story when it's not. The method is the same.
The answer - spike off remote program processing capability, or at least require a manual override to allow any remote program to run, and/or be saved. Yes, Virginia, it can be done without turning every machine into a tethered machine. A tethered machine is a completely different animal. The problem is three-fold. One - It'll use a lot more bandwidth (you want dancing palm trees on your web site? You'll have to sent each change of movement to the receiving machine. No remote program to run creating the waving palm trees on the receiving machine.) Two - It'll take a lot more processing capability at the host end (to create the waving palm tree image.) And Three - no more shoving your choices down other people's machines - Good or Bad!!! That's unforgivable! It doesn't matter whether it's Big Brother or Little Brother or the Mafia, everybody wants to use other people for their own benefit. How dare you stand in their way! So nobody will change the system to solve the problem. (Dodges three tomatoes and a cabbage.)
As to the second part - general survelliance - The only way it's going away is if the technology is totally suppressed. And that's not going to happen. The one good thing I can say about it is that it won't be limited to the main power blocs, a la 1984. The little people can spy right back. This in itself puts limits on government reach, but at a high social price. Otherwise, all I can say is - be seeing ya.
Brickbat away...
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