On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 19:16 +0200, Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak wrote: > Hi there, > > I find this... disconcerting: > http://www.linux.com/news/friday-funnies/the-iron-penguin-part-2 > > I understand that Google Glass is a Linux-based device that makes rounds in > the press and seems to be a very... convenient vehicle of promoting Linux, > but > there is a multitude of problems with it. > > First off, I don't see Google promoting the fact that it's Linux-based. > Google > doesn't help promote Linux.
Google funds Linux hacking and makes sure there are GNU/Linux ports of their non-free software (I see this as worse than libre software on Windows, but better than not supporting GNU/Linux at all -- a net negative, but not the worst case, and not something I'd note as a positive to anyone not subscribed to this list). > Secondly, Google Glass has a lot of dangerous implications for privacy and > personal freedom -- the very personal freedom that Free Software is poised to > protect, although in a bit different area. Does it? The only implication is that now individuals have an easy way to essentially tape a long-running camera to their face. People have been doing that for a long time, and your public life has been constantly surveilled for much longer. Google Glass doesn't take away any privacy. It just makes the existing privacy losses much more blatant. There is no technical solution for this problem. It's not clear if the technological attacker or defender has a clear advantage at the moment, and the arms race will continue for some time. The best social solution for this problem is to attack centralized surveillance, since it seems much more harmful overall than decentralized surveillance. I can't think of any horrible things decentralized surveillance has done, but I can think of several positive things it's done (the Rodney King tape and a large number of similar tapes, the Russian meteor footage). -- Sent from Ubuntu
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