All cryptographic code goes as source code to NSA and is returned as
object code to be used by windows. So draw your own conclusions about
what's going on there.
I'm concerned about privacy and ownership of my machine (and data) and
I'm using Ubuntu Linux. Next time I have to change Linux version I'll
probably go back to Debian.
On 04/06/15 08:33, Ted Roche wrote:
It's worthwhile to read the original op-ed, and consider the message,
regardless of the messenger:
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/22/malware-viruses-companies-preinstall
Some good points in there.
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 7:08 AM, Ted Roche <[email protected]> wrote:
Well, sometimes it takes an extremist to point out a fundamental truth.
Recently I had to do a project on a brand-new Win 8.1 machine, never
before touched, and wanted to see what happened when I just stuck with
the default settings, as I know many of my users would. I was
astounded by all the EULAs I had to agree with, and the software
defaults were all to use MS cloud and MS remote services just to
operate the local machine: my user account is stored on some MS login,
my documents and pictures are stored on a OneDrive 'cloud' and MS
updates the machine whenever it feels like it. So, somewhere on a
cloud somewhere is a record of every time I logged in or out, or ran
specific software, or took a picture (along, no doubt with location
information), all kept safe from prying eyes by... who?
Stallman is a difficult man, on good days, but he is/was a brilliant
programmer, without whom the GNU toolchain would not have been around
to build Linux. His insights into why we want the source code to the
software that runs our computers are very valid, and worth
consideration. I have been a proud FSF member for years.
(http://www.fsf.org)
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 3:32 AM, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote:
Privacy is of course an ever-growing concern but Stallman is as usual
just way too far over on the paranoid nutjob end of the scale.
--
Alan Bourke
alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
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