Intelligence Briefs

We demand systems that never lose data, load instantly, and comply with every law, then wonder why deletion fails. The delete button is not broken because companies are evil, but because we asked for the impossible.

I am not against all surveillance. For example, CCTV recording crimes provides accountability and safety. What I oppose is mass tracking, profiling, and automated systems that judge us without transparency or consent.

VPNs solve real problems, but their necessity signals deeper failures. We use them to compensate for insecure networks, surveillance capitalism, and artificial access barriers.

Modern software depends on thousands of packages from strangers. When you run 'npm install,' you're executing code from maintainers you have never met. Supply chain attacks exploit this trust on a daily basis.

The EU's Chat Control proposal requires scanning everyone's private messages before they are sent. Client-side scanning shifts communication from targeted investigation to pre-emptive monitoring of all citizens.

CPU clock speeds stopped scaling in 2005 when Dennard Scaling broke down. The real bottleneck? Moving data, not computing it. Modern systems need specialized hardware and smarter architectures to keep improving.

Digitalisation turns public records from manual access to mass extraction. Payment apps, business registers, and property records together expose your address, finances, and movements to anyone willing to query them.

LLMs generate valid code quickly, but without proper context they cannot distinguish between secure and insecure patterns. Capability without context is a threat to AI code quality, just like any external contribution requiring review.

Twenty years of digital convenience built detailed profiles of our health, finances, and relationships. The data never disappears, instead it is shared with advertisers, law enforcement, and anyone willing to pay.