h On 18 December 2014 at 00:10, Jann Eike Kruse <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't think we can stop that train. People love convenience, they love > gadgets, they like to show off and they are rarely concerned about privacy or > security in such contexts...until it's too late. (I'm trying to change > that...with only little success.) Just asking myself: How many of you friends > use facebook or cracked software? (Both are not very secure, not very > privacy-respecting.) Many...most...all? http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/12/17/changetip-must-die/t "... we all know how lazy people are from the way they install flappy bird apps on their phone with enough privileges to launch nukes." http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/12/17/changetip-must-die/ > So I say, we can not stop it but only try to take part in the 'evolution' and > try to push towards solutions that are (nearly) equally fancy but (much) > safer, i.e. open standards, open source. Nobody cares about freedom 0 (use for any purpose) until the lack of it bites them in the backside. Even then, they will ask around friends for workarounds rather than assert that they have a right. So my first thought is to get people to think about how to demand freedom ... that they literally don't understand. We, as technologists, have a responsibility to people who, in any practical sense that will ever happen, will never understand what we do. I hope that scares you as much as it does me. - d. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
