Ten Years Later

" . . .  screen telecommunication devices (STDs). I decried how we walked right into the trap like rodents in glue by taking the devices onto our bodies and strapping them to our brainpans. I railed about STDs in publications that saw fit to publish the jeremiads (e.g., here, in 2012, and here, in 2019, to cite two). . ."

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To the Destruction of the World Wide Web - CounterPunch.org

Which reminds me.  I launched the Assassinphone in 2002 on the Cypherpunks list. Point and shoot. Fire and forget. Launch and leave. Drag and drop - the ultimate Killer App, APster's chosen hardware device.  Contains surveillance, targeting maps, best market odds, night vision, silenced pistol. grenade, knife and garotte. These days all that's migrated to various types of drones but the basic idea remains the same.

Now remember a decade in netspace is an eternity in business-as-usual's religious somnambulism.  So what is the point of crying over such spilt milk?

I mean what is the point!