Brummbaer

This! It’s like having an outbreak of a long forgotten disease in this scenario, won’t end humanity, but not great either.

That’s basically how the bureaucratic class aka. the states middle management works.

The whole mobile ecosystem is a giant hardware backdoor on every phone. I think it’s too late now to change anything on that level.

I just pointed out that it was more complicated than King + Church at the top and everyone else down the line. I wanted to be neutral here.

The idea of property was not the same as it is under capitalism or nationalism now. The feudal lords (doesn’t have to be a king - in the case of the holy roman empire for example.) have the title to the land, but it can be owned, sold or inherited down the lines by the people who hold it.

It’s not Feudalism, under Feudalism people had more property. Also common land existed. Something that disappeared completely under Capitalism.

You totally could have multiple Lords, that was nothing out of the ordinary.

Feudalism was a not some kind of top down system, it was a net woven out of relationships people negotiated all the time.

For example Enguerrand VII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enguerrand_VII_de_Coucy

He was a vassal to the French and the English king at the same time, so the fun really begins when both are at war with another.

Bunkers only are useful if there is friendly territory behind them.

If you can’t call the police or your local warlord it’s a prison in the best case and an expensive tomb in the worst case.

Given what happend with that bar in Canberra, this won’t stay up for long.

Sorry but this whole thing is just snake-oil.

You can verify and sign your whole trust chain down to the last shared library and it doesn’t matter when you don’t know what the binary blobs on your TPM / CPU / BIOS / NIC are doing.

The only guarantee to a secure system is openness an all of that signing won’t help you there.

I don’t trust Microsoft, why should I start trusting IBM/Canonical or Poettering now.

If the possibility is there they will happily lock you out of your own hardware.

It’s the end of the Silicon Valley era. In a few years I guess new and faster stuff will come from China.

Interesting, I wonder if you could do the same now with Internet. We know that DSL works over a wet rope.