Secure Decentralisation

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The essays when applying to graduate school were easy enough.   My favorite question was “What are the three books you would take to a desert island?”   Unlike many of my peers, I did not seek to produce a false illusionary package to be read by members of the admissions committees.   I simply sat down and wrote from my conscience.  

The first book was One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.   The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s and describes a single day in the life of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov.   The second book was Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll.   In the literary nonsense genre, it tells of a young girl named Alice, who falls through a rabbit hole into a subterranean fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures.  

Another book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, dramatically illustrates why a civilized world prescribes the use of decentralised technologies.  



“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking:  

What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?  
Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?    
The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!   If…   if…  

We didn’t love freedom enough.  
And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…  
We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”  



I hope this adequately underscores to the reader the realities and dangers of misunderstanding or ignoring the potential harm done to society by the zealous misuses of technology by those around the globe with ulterior and pernicious motives.  

The future is what we make it.  


Cordially,


The Risk Observer®