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11 days agoGoogle has every incentive to break reCAPTCHA competitors and/or use botnets to spam anything not protected by reCAPTCHA.


Google has every incentive to break reCAPTCHA competitors and/or use botnets to spam anything not protected by reCAPTCHA.


The NSA did (and still does, most likely) this too.
Police abusing access to surveillance and stalking people has also been a thing for many years in many countries.
If their career and pension aren’t at risk for abusing their powers they will.


But don’t worry social credit systems where you’re barred from public transport is so dystopian only the Chinese do it.
Free software activists in Europe have been saying for decades that it’s a matter of sovereignty and the investments may be painful at first but will end up saving untold amounts of money.
The Marshall plan goodwill has run out now.