Privacy

A central problem is that people are using these products, and the best available solution absolutely involves paying attention to why they use them and what weaknesses they have.

I already said: convenience.

Amazon has massive brand recognition and just general visibility everywhere, so people are familiar with it already, reputation doesn't matter.

A Nest camera is also an all in one, modular solution, basically zero thinking required.

If you can't buy it al WalMart or on Amazon, and set it up in 20 minutes, you've already lost 95% of consumers.

... why do you linux uptake has been so slow?

Most people don't enjoy thinking unless they're being paid to do that.

Whether people actually use a technology is directly relevant; they can call something criminal and ban it, but that costs political capital proportionally to the required disruption and how many people are affected.

Sure, if you live in a functional democracy, as opposed to one thats been captured by oligarchs who control everything for 15+ years now.

The only political capital that matters is that within board rooms.

Everything else is a marketing problem.

Do you even have an idea there, or do you think it's just hopeless and everyone might as well give up?

I think its basically hopeless, but also that thats no excuse to give up.

As to a strategy to prevent the panopticon?

Uh, chip in like Johnny Silverhand, or do some unauthorized pentesting and take down as many AWS clusters as possible?

We are well, well past the point of no return on stopping the totalitarian momentum of geopolitics, unless you have a plan to instantly implement world communism.

Or, if that sounds too spicy, become as invisible and innocuous as possible, and maybe at least you can avoid the wrath of the panopticon for a while longer.

EDIT:

ok lol, so apparently as I was typing that yesterday, AWS US East 01 was getting utterly fucking clobbered by... something?

And this is apparently still ongoing, no clue if its a bug, a misconfig, an attack of some kind...

But, this does evidence that... yeah, do that, have that happen somehow, and all your panopticon systems also go down.

Yeah, this is the Tracer Tong solution to the problem, not exactly ideal, but, it does actually literally solve the problem, its not just thoughts and prayers.