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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Orwell gets cheaper


NPR has a very interesting tech podcast today with John Villasenor of the Brookings Institute. The piece is titled "Technological Innovations Help Dictators See All."

Apparently with the price of data storage dropping, your typical autocracy can now not only listen to all of your conversations but archive the conversations for perpetuity. The cost of recording all the communication transmissions of a small country with a population of 15 million for a year? About $750 per year. Give this one a listen.

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