World Without Secrets:Business, Crime, and in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing

<p>Preface xiii</p>
<p>Acknowledgments xvii</p>
<p>Everything You Need to Know before We Start xix</p>
<p>A Brief History of the Next 10 Years xxi</p>
<p>Chapter 1: 1</p>
<p>Why Won t They Leave Me Alone?</p>
<p>The Power of Names and Numbers 2</p>
<p>What Does It Take to Create a Universe? 3</p>
<p>Crossing Over 5</p>
<p>More Data, More Power, Few Controls 6</p>
<p>Unstoppable Momentum 8</p>
<p>By the Numbers 9</p>
<p>Where Did the Secrets Go? 10</p>
<p>Chapter 2:13</p>
<p>Streets Without Secrets</p>
<p>How the Future Worked in the Past 15</p>
<p>Authentication and the Exception Economy 17</p>
<p>How It Works in Tampa 19</p>
<p>What the Software Knows 21</p>
<p>Yes, Probably 22</p>
<p>Does It Work? 23</p>
<p>More Faces in View 25</p>
<p>Walk with Me 25</p>
<p>Keep Walking 27</p>
<p>Do the Math 28</p>
<p>Draw the Lines 31</p>
<p>So? 33</p>
<p>Eternally Vigilant? 34</p>
<p>Chapter 3: 37</p>
<p>Homes Without Secrets</p>
<p>I Want This Why? 39</p>
<p>KISS 40</p>
<p>About Those Cameras 42</p>
<p>Data at Rest 44</p>
<p>The Rules 45</p>
<p>We Are the Boundary 47</p>
<p>Chapter 4: 49</p>
<p>Cars Without Secrets The Technical Stuff: Telematics 50</p>
<p>Who Hears What 51</p>
<p>The More You Give, the More You Get 51</p>
<p>Who s Driving? 53</p>
<p>What the Owner Wants 54</p>
<p>Cars Without Secrets, Now 55</p>
<p>What the Car Knows 56</p>
<p>Suppose 58</p>
<p>Private by Intention 59</p>
<p>What Can Policy Do? 60</p>
<p>Call Me Any Time 62</p>
<p>Speaking of Enhancing Performance 63</p>
<p>Making the Drivers Smart 64</p>
<p>Smart Cars, Yes 65</p>
<p>It s Simple, Not 67</p>
<p>Hunter s First Law 68</p>
<p>Chapter 5: 69</p>
<p>The N Party System: The Era of the Network Army</p>
<p>How Scenarios Work 70</p>
<p>The Scenarios for Social Structures 70</p>
<p>The Quadrants 72</p>
<p>The Engineered Society 73</p>
<p>The Lost and Lonely 75</p>
<p>The Conscientious Objectors 80</p>
<p>The Network Army 81</p>
<p>I Repeat: The Network Is an Amplifier 84</p>
<p>Chapter 6: 85</p>
<p>Software Without Secrets</p>
<p>Disruptive, Quite 86</p>
<p>Business Without Secrets 87</p>
<p>Interviewing Raymond 87</p>
<p>Hackers and Crackers 89</p>
<p>From Communities to Network Army 90</p>
<p>Open Source Is More Than Open Source 96</p>
<p>Yeah, It s a High–Performance Team 97</p>
<p>Is This Message Clear? 99</p>
<p>The Medium and the Message 100</p>
<p>Why They Listen 101</p>
<p>Power Grabs, Not 101</p>
<p>Ideological Conflict and Corruption 102</p>
<p>Nemesis and the Network Army 104</p>
<p>Can I Be Your Enemy? 104</p>
<p>Generals Are Always Fighting the Last War 105</p>
<p>The Message and the Medium, and the Audience for Linux 106</p>
<p>If You re Losing the Battles, Change the Battlefield 107</p>
<p>Free Stuff Kills Competitors, Not Markets 108</p>
<p>Why Not Just Let the Market Do Its Work? 109</p>
<p>Maybe Someone Can Be Convinced 110</p>
<p>How Did Things Get So Bad? 112</p>
<p>A Few Pointers for Engineered Society Generals 112</p>
<p>Hunter s Second Law 114</p>
<p>Chapter 7: 115</p>
<p>The Rise of the Mentat</p>
<p>Mentat Defined 115</p>
<p>Why Mentats? 122</p>
<p>Mentats Have (Hidden) Power 123</p>
<p>Mentats Provide Less Information 124</p>
<p>The Network Mentat 124</p>
<p>The Mentat Reviewer 126</p>
<p>Choose Your Mentat 126</p>
<p>Trust Matters 128</p>
<p>Mentats and the Law of Inertia 129</p>
<p>Mentats and I–Filters 130</p>
<p>Hunter s Second Law Personal and Institutional Conflict 130</p>
<p>Breaking the Bubble 131</p>
<p>Would Breaking the Bubble Have Saved Cisco? 132</p>
<p>Reality Always Wins (in the World Without Secrets and Everywhere Else) 133</p>
<p>On the Interactions of Laws 133</p>
<p>Chapter 8:135</p>
<p>Distracted Consumers, Mentats, and Timothy McVeigh</p>
<p>The Path of Least Resistance 136</p>
<p>It s Easier If You Don t Ask 137</p>
<p>So Why Look? 139</p>
<p>Did McVeigh Do It? 140</p>
<p>The Necessary Knowledge Is That of What to Observe 142</p>
<p>What Do You See? 142</p>
<p>Chapter 9: 145</p>
<p>In the Exception Economy, Be Exceptional</p>
<p>What Drives the Exception Economy? 147</p>
<p>A Portrait of the Artist as a Very Big (or Little) Number 156</p>
<p>Business Without Secrets 157</p>
<p>The Business Is a Network 158</p>
<p>Art Is Exceptional, Objects Are Not 165</p>
<p>Chapter 10: 167</p>
<p>Art Without Secrets</p>
<p>Who Wins and Who Loses? 167</p>
<p>Relationships Matter: The Fate of the Music Industry 170</p>
<p>The Economics of Long–Playing Plastic 170</p>
<p>Yes, It Really Works Just Like That 174</p>
<p>Independents: They re Everywhere. Are They Dangerous? 177</p>
<p>What about the Relationship? 179</p>
<p>Strategies for Record Industry Viability 180</p>
<p>Strategy 1: Kill Digital Distribution 181</p>
<p>Strategy 2: Monopolize Bandwidth 186</p>
<p>Strategy 3: Prohibit Alternative Business Models 188</p>
<p>Summary: The Fate of Digital Objects 192</p>
<p>Power and Knowledge 192</p>
<p>Chapter 11: 193</p>
<p>Crime Without Secrets</p>
<p>Buying In 194</p>
<p>Yeah, It s about Technology 195</p>
<p>The Lessons 196</p>
<p>Plan B 197</p>
<p>What We Fear 198</p>
<p>It s Not the Transaction, It s the Database 199</p>
<p>Mass Victimization 200</p>
<p>Why Worry? 202</p>
<p>Chapter 12: 203</p>
<p>War Without Secrets</p>
<p>Engineered Society Warfare and the Terrorist 205</p>
<p>Crime Is War, War Is Crime 208</p>
<p>Network–Centric Warfare 209</p>
<p>Crackers at War: Threat or Menace? 218</p>
<p>What s Potential and What s Real? 225</p>
<p>What to Do, Right Now 234</p>
<p>Chapter 13: 245</p>
<p>Digital Pearl Harbor</p>
<p>On the Morning&nbsp; . 247</p>
<p>What Happened after Pearl Harbor 250</p>
<p>A Pearl Harbor for the New Century 251</p>
<p>A Dream of Electronic Handcuffs 252</p>
<p>Under Observation 255</p>
<p>Watching Everything Is Not Knowing Everything 256</p>
<p>If Automated Surveillance Works, Whom Does It Work On? 257</p>
<p>The Issue Is Control 259</p>
<p>The Return of the Engineered Society 260</p>
<p>Who s Not on the Team? 261</p>
<p>Pearl Harbor in the Borderless World 262</p>
<p>Chapter 14: 265</p>
<p>The Last Secrets</p>
<p>Notes 267</p>
<p>Index 275</p>