- freedom from scrutiny
- freedom from aggressive advertising
- freedom from downloading undesired components
- built-in anonymity when going online
Obviously you need some protection from government civil rights violations. But that is the least of my worries. I just hate it when I fire up my browser and Snap.Do, Yahoo, or some other not-so-well-intentioned vendor takes over my default home page, new tabs, task bars, etc. [How about every part of my computer that I use being off the internet? Then the whole problem is: how to design a computer to pull information from the internet safely?]
I also hate do a single Google search for a "Mediterranean Cruise" and then being pestered about cruises everywhere I go on the internet.
I am afraid that good solutions requires genuine re-architecting of the computing devices. For example the operating system should not be vulnerable, nor any of the basic installed components. They need to be in a part of the computer that cannot be modified except by built-in hardware data transfers. Or maybe an OS upgrade will require a physical part mailed by the vendor. Internet installs can go to a programmable part of the PC but it should always remain quarantined from the OS etc.
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