On 11/02/2015 12:10 AM, Isaac David wrote: > [nonprism] does not actually deal with SaaSS, much less it discriminates > networking programs that give you "choice" of service providers from > those which don't. It really only does what you read in the Wiki. > your-privacy bans perfectly free software packages known to use online > services which in turn are known to engage in mass surveillance; and > [nonprism] patches some or all of those packages so that you can use > them without worrying. Yet if you want to avoid SaaSS then activating > [nonprism] is a reasonable step in that direction because of the > correlation between SaaSS and mass surveillance. However, [nonprism] > doesn't guarantee you that even the most obscure free software client > program meant to be used with SaaSS will be blacklisted. There's nothing > a distro can do to make sure the user never connects to SaaSS; you still > need to think about your online practices. >
Hm… Does Firefox Hello / Telefónica engage in mass surveillance known to us? They certainly can, but a quick (maybe too quick) Web search does not show anything. What is the criterion to remove them from nonprism? On 11/02/2015 12:37 AM, Jorge Araya Navarro wrote: > More over, I don't see anything intrinsically evil in not having > different choices of service > providers (this is not a violation of any of user's software > freedom), so this is neither a reason to > ban features from free software. > It seems quite similar to the reasons for free software and not only open-source in the literal sense. You depend on them. _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
