I was shocked to hear that china is planning to deploy a software, Green Dam Youth Escort, which is supposed to filter out pornographic and improper content. Certain parties were concerned about freedom of the community to reveal their opinions in political issues. However, I'm more concerned about something else..
Imagine that the whole Chinese population has deployed this government software. We're talking about billions of computers here!. What if the government decided to send requests from this software to a certain network. It's like building a "gigantic official botnet"!! I'm sure that they thought about that. That can be very handy in case of cyber warefare. It's actually like a secret cyber weapon that utilizes all the computers in china.
Anyway, weather this is going to be used in the way described or not, I think that's a good idea but it should be implemented in a different way. In times of warefare, governments can call for volunteers, like cyber soldiers. These volunteers won't have to do anything except deploy a software on their computers that is connected securly to the government via the internet . And the government then can control this giant botnet and make it act in an organized coherent fashion. It's the same idea as laser, laser is just light that is highly coherent. Also having a choice to volunteer, gives a good impression; giving people who are not convinced to just not participate as part of the democratic system and at the same time allowing people who are convinced with the government's political actions to volunteer.
I'm just dropping off some ideas i had. They're not organized yet so I highly appreciate your opinions
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