It would seem that the fall out of the "NSA" spying thing is not going to be limited to your privacy. It has the potential to have a severe effect on the business of software. The thing that is really scary is just how big a back door companies like Microsoft have built in for the NSA.
If you think about the reach that they have it would amount to each and every computer in the world that runs Microsoft Office. If I were a stockholder I would be dumping my shares as there is going to be a very big backlash. Question is what will they replace it with?
How ironic this situation is, you know they can read your files but there is nothing you can replace it with. What would you do? This is a very big "catch 22" but I'm sure that the opportunity will be taken advantage of and it won't be a USA based company. Who in the world will ever trust anything the USA makes.
Those who thought China was being paranoid by blocking the internet access with "the great firewall of China" are now thinking how smart they were and maybe wishing they had done so much sooner. Then you have all the "cloud" applications and the many people who use them. This is wide open to the spying eyes of the NSA.
I find myself thinking of John Lennon's Imagine. All the people, living life in peace and sharing everything with the US government. Well it would appear that the world could be all connected, we could have no more countries, but the religion thing would be a tough one. I imagine the lines blurring, that many governments could fall. And really, are we that different? Our DNA would suggest we are not.
7 billion, waiting to see the fallout, and counting
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