vendredi 11 octobre 2013

Security: the future for middle-class jobs?

Summary: China employs some 2 million people to scan the network looking for contained criminal or political.

Nick Farrell reporting TechEye:

According to Chinese State media, the country hires 2 million people to run and monitor its "great firewall".
Beijing News reported that many employees are to perform keyword searches and checking of tens of millions of messages that are published every day...

The "web police" is hired by the Government propaganda arm, as well as commercial sites.

Foremski's take: Safety is a growing market and there are many jobs that do that still can be well by the software. It is not the highest-paid job in the world, but it is a constant work with excellent growth prospects.

There are estimates that a third of the population of East Germany who was working for the Stasi security organization as informers or agents.

In my fantasies dystopian is easy to see a future in which many people work in security, exploration and Pats on each door.

People are essential for security. With the flood of information an operation as it is produced from the NSA, the number of false positives appeared by their search software must be astronomical and requires that human beings process it forward.

And as the world of subterfuge becomes more sophisticated, it will require increasingly more feet - in the streets, or the eye-in-the-Tweets for combat.

Spying on others it will be crowd-sourced, as it has always been, and that will generate even more information that someone has that you process. Who can you trust? You won't be able to trust anyone with any comments, no matter how glib, or funny.

In a future where trust is rare, Pats down during a security check could become the closer will have human contact.

Tom Foremski, reports on the business and culture of the Silicon Valley at the intersection of technology and media.

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