Report: Apple designing its own servers to avoid snooping - Wired "At one point, Apple even assigned people to take photographs of motherboards and annotate the function of each chip, explaining why it was supposed to be there. Building its own servers with motherboards it designed would be the most surefire way for Apple to prevent unauthorized snooping via extra chips." *** Edward Snowden and “The Wire” creator David Simon had a friendly Twitter debate about burner phones - Quartz “On Sunday (March 20), the NSA contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden and David Simon, the creator of the acclaimed HBO show The Wire, engaged in a thoughtful, polite debate about government surveillance.” *** Angola’s Wikipedia Pirates are Exposing the Problems with Digital Colonialism - Motherboard “Angolans have started hiding pirated movies and music in Wikipedia articles and linking to them on closed Facebook groups, creating a totally free and clandestine file sharing network in a country where mobile internet data is extremely expensive.” *** Will capitalism survive the robot revolution? - TechCrunch “If 90 percent of human jobs are replaced by robots in the next 50 years — something now considered plausible — is capitalism still the ideal economic system to champion?” *** 1970s Researchers Predicted Debit Cards Would Be Great For Surveillance - Gizmodo “Suppose for a minute all transactions over $10 must go through the system and that they are immediately debited to your account in your bank’s computer. Thus the system not only collects and files a great deal…
