Written by Denise on Thursday, October 7th, 2010 in Business, Politics, Digital Technology, News.
Seems that Microsoft is reportedly proposing to the government to control who’s computer accesses the internet as well as possibly the websites you access.
A top Microsoft executive, Scott Charney, who reportedly was at the ISSE 2010 PC safety conference in Berlin yesterday, is apparently proposing to the government that it should control which computers connect to the Internet based on if it is infected — to prevent malware attacks. What this means is that the government would be in control of who could connect to the Internet and an appointed call center hired by the government would be responsible for contacting you — to let you know that you are infected. Supposedly, they would make sure that the infected computer is “quarantined” by government order and not allowed to access the Internet until it is infection free.
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