What Colour are your bits? (2004)

Re:What Colour are your bits? (2004) by kabdib on Thursday October 29, 2020 @06:00PM (#24936602)

I've wondered how long it will be before input events are traceable to specific devices (e.g., you type 'A' on your keyboard, registered to you, and get a scancode . . . plus a few hundred bits timestamped and signed by the device before anyone can actually treat it as an 'A' keystroke). "Secure Unicode," anyone?

I figure this kind of dystopian mechanism for input provenance is at least 100 years out. Please don't anyone prove me wrong.

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Re:What Colour are your bits? (2004) by wmf on Thursday October 29, 2020 @08:02PM (#24937607)

This is reminiscent of Vinge's Rainbows End where 90% of every chip is DRM and 10% is actual functionality.

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Re:What Colour are your bits? (2004) by Out_of_Characte on Thursday October 29, 2020 @06:53PM (#24937070)

Your keystrokes are safely stored on Microsoft servers to improve Cortana and the advertisements you'll see

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