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tangent4ronpaul
09-13-2013, 06:36 PM
I was thinking of potential unintended consequences of the Snowden revelations. Wanted to ask people here, which of these seems likely and also what other possible consequences might happen.

Keep in mind that this has already caused 86% of the US population to change their Internet habits, caused a number of international blowups and the cancelling of treaties, business contracts (oil/gas) and diplomatic events.

So please vote, speculate, suggest other scenarios and so on. What do you think the fallout will be?

The death or at least major downsizing of the (US) cloud. - EU cloud companies are expecting a 15% gain in market share from US companies loosing business. One cloud CEO said his company was getting 50-100 calls a day from customers asking about their cooperation with the NSA.

US companies moving services off the cloud and onto in-house, encrypted servers.

The death of the CA (Certificate Authority) industry.

TEOTIAYKI (the End Of The Internet As You Know It). - The Internet is supposed to be an open place where any node can contact any other node and excepting places like China, Iran and N. Korea it is. There is a move about, however, to nationalize the Internet. By that, I mean break it up with each country having control of their own part. The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South America), lead by Brazil are trying to pass laws that would require any company doing business with Brazil citizens maintain servers in that country and that no information about a Brazilian citizen may leave that countries boarders. We are talking about effecting Facebook, gmail, etc. Obviously, that has some technical issues...

The emergence and rapid gain in popularity to the point of dominating the market of services like Facebook and gmail in countries with strong privacy laws that offer similar services but with strong privacy and encryption options.

The rapid growth of the use of encryption and Invisible Web services, like DarkNet, FreeNet, I2P, Mesh networks, etc. TOR saw a 200% increase in in use last week. It might be because of a bot or because of the recently released Pirate Bay browser being released or it could be the Snowden revelations. Probably a combination of all three.

Huge growth in the mom and pop security industry.

The death of proprietary source code and the beginning of the heyday for open source.

A bipartisan revolt of voters, kicking out people that voted for the police state type bills. Unfortunately, 2/3rds of the Senate will not be vulnerable when it's freshly in voters memory. This could shift the Congressional balance in weird ways.

Huge impact on sales of US tech products, especially IC's and IT services. Economic blowback.

Huge pushback on corporate collection of data and targeted advertizing.

Possibly loosing status as a world leader in technology.

Growing anti-US alliances in South America and the expansion of BRICS.

Snowden's worst (subconscious) nightmare - people woke up. they talked about it and raised a ruckus. Congress acted, passing meaningless legislation to "fix" the problem, but actually making it worse. The people are appeased and become complacent with being spied on. The surveillance continues, on steroids.

So what do you think will happen? This is like a slow motion 9/11 in binary.

-t

Reason
09-13-2013, 11:19 PM
First thought that comes to my mind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect_%28law%29

Occam's Banana
09-13-2013, 11:38 PM
TL;DV :p

tangent4ronpaul
09-15-2013, 01:41 PM
bump

anaconda
09-15-2013, 01:53 PM
Fascinating.

daviddee
09-15-2013, 03:07 PM
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