VPNs haven't been useful since 2002

[VulcanWerks]

Since this flaw in networking has been known to have existed since 2002... I'm sure they wont be talking about it anytime soon.

Still, I'm not too worried about script kiddies and techno-nerds as much as I am the surprise in store when they apply all that harvested data about me to some algorithm somewhere... and then I will wish privacy was a 'real' thing in the 'virtual' world.  Trust me, social scoring is based upon something other than 'base stats.'

Oh for sure it is based on other factors. Though I’m not certain what you mean by “base stats”.

Social credit already exists IMO. You just don’t see it. Things that come to mind for me regarding your social credit score:
- What bank you use
- What credit cards you use
- Gun ownership
- What you pay in taxes
- Union/non-union/corporate monkey/self-employed
- What vehicles you own
- Zip code you live in
- Social Media engagement
- What school you went to
- What car(s) you have
- Energy consumption
- What you eat
- Criminal history
- Legal action history

Data can be found for all of this pretty easily and aggregated.

Example - do you bank with JPM and carry an AMEX? Higher scores than banking at the local CU and paying cash for everything. The former is more transparent than the latter.

Or, does the PUD show you use a ton of electricity and burn through huge amounts of NatGas? Or does it show you have solar have a certain amount of self-sufficiency and use minimal gas? The latter gets a higher score.

I’m making these examples up to illustrate that whether we are informed of it or not we have many ways that an SCS could already be implemented.

There’s also “debanking”, or Broker-Dealers firing clients “just because”… which I have a hunch is heavily related to a shadow set of review criteria that very much looks like a social credit score.