How would you even do that ? I doubt any criminal organization just trust the platform for encrypting their data, they do it themselves using well known algorithms that have no backdoors.
People who seriously want to encrypt will always be able to do it, you can hide data in pictures, files whatever and have a custom algorithm to reassemble it if you want.
The only one who will lose is the user who do not really care, being now more weak to man in the middle attack. That is the majority with data that cause no threat.
Yeah well just try to use XML as your config format and spit JSON out of it for your frontend, if you are using Java you'll quickly realize how obsolete and inelegant is this horror that they dare call JAXB.
The quote come from the minister of the ecological transition, not 'energy minister', whose official duty is, quoting wikipedia 'responsible for preparing and implementing the French government’s policy in the fields of sustainable development, climate, energy transition, and biodiversity.'
This new minister has a political degree (Science Po), no technological background, and is member of the local pro-ecological party since 2000.
Of course she's referring to EPR as a mess, which is true in a certain way, but in her mind it's just a political stance she's feeling obligated to say publicly.
Of course the EPR is a giant project, maybe too giant, of course it was underestimated in order to get it going, and of course it takes much longer to be built than every one would want.
But that's the price of technological advancement, that's how we learn to build better things.
And what's the alternative? 1650MWe of wind turbines, where would you put it?
The UK has just finished building the Hornsea Project 1 offshore wind farm. [1]
It had a projected cost of $5.2 billion for a nameplate capacity of 1.2GW and an actual average output of 0.46GW. Scaled to the output of the Flamanville mess (1.6GW), it means that a wind farm with equivalent average output would cost about $18 billion. Though I imagine that the average lifetime of a 174-turbines wind farm over an area of 630 sq kms in the middle of the sea might be shorter than that of a nuclear plant.
And we're still talking about an average output. When wind will not blow enough for meeting consumption then additional energy will be drawn from other sources, and it will, it already is.
Renewable energy is great but it is a non-viable option as a main energy source.
That's the internet, it's just computers connected together and each computer belongs to someone. The more you have, the more traffic you have.
The only way I can see this working is if the internet or parts of the internet become a public asset, a national cloud (like roads etc) paid by income taxes. Your videos would be on this public storage, common services would work like AWS services etc.
It will be hard since this means additional taxes but at least the government will not be interested in competition (in theory).
I don't think we have dealt with Mars problems at all, the road is still very long for any manned mission and I'm pretty sure the Moon will get its own base long before we even consider the possibility to explore Mars with humans. The base on the Moon being by itself a problem that we have not dealt at all. I mean we started space exploration like yesterday and each new problem seems to go on a logarithmic scale, they are hundred of times harder each time.
As a note, Red Mars is the first volume of a trilogy (there's also Green and Blue Mars). It is quite hard SF with systems that are or were considered as solution for Mars terraformation, very good recommendation !
