On 8/7/20 12:36 AM, marc wrote:
> People being easily identified and
> tracked in real life is something that strengthens authoritarian regimes
> (whether fascist or communist) as well coercive corporate interests.
there were no communist authoritarian regimes in history.. communist by
name perh
marc wrote:
>> For me security refers primarily to file access. This takes me back to
>> my question. If I craete a new user, named zoom for example, and have
>> it run zoom, won't that limit access files on my HD?
>
> Yes, under two conditions:
>
> - your other users (holding confidential d
Hi Emiliano,
In conflict resolution, I find aptitude to be superior. You should use
it too :)
On the matter of gwenview, it is part of the KDE desktop, which depends
on elogind. By default, XFCE uses consolekit which is in conflict and
thus fails the install. Thus, you'll have to switch from cons
> I'm a product of the Great
> Depresssion, and so security for me fixates on political snooping. I'm
> less concerned about being ripped off than looming fascism. I'm not
> suggsting your concern is not important, jut that it is not the same
> as my own.
My concerns relate to both of those. P
Quoting ael (adrian.lawre...@physics.oxon.org):
> One hopes so. But I had to install the zoom deb package via root.
> Since it is closed source, who knows what the package might do?
I hope you know that 'ar vx $THING.deb' unpacks $THING.deb in place,
without installing it. Doing that gives you t
Hi all,
I wonder if it's possible to install Gwenview (the image viewer from KDE)
on a XFCE installation.
I have this sources configuration:
root@vaio:/home/emi# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
## package repositories
deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged beowulf main
deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/
> On 6 Aug 2020, at 20:52, Haines Brown wrote:
>
> For me security refers primarily to file access. This takes me back to
> my question. If I craete a new user, named zoom for example, and have
> it run zoom, won't that limit access files on my HD?
With the dpkg-deb utility you can extract a
Hello,
On 06/08/20 15:27, ael wrote:
Actually zoom does offer a tarball for download, so that can be checked
and so is safer than a closed deb.
Well if you want you can inspect debs too, Midnight commander even
provides a "virtual filesystem" implementation for it
Bye!
_
On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 02:23:04PM +0100, ael wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 06:52:06AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> > For me security refers primarily to file access. This takes me back to
> > my question. If I craete a new user, named zoom for example, and have
> > it run zoom, won't that lim
marc...@welz.org.za wrote:
> Some people are going to say "not possible, the call is
> end-to-end encrypted". Actually no. Illustrative example: The
> intercept reported that zoom claimed end-to-end encryption,
> but instead had one shared key, and used ECB (a really poor
> way of using a cypher).
On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 06:52:06AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> For me security refers primarily to file access. This takes me back to
> my question. If I craete a new user, named zoom for example, and have
> it run zoom, won't that limit access files on my HD?
One hopes so. But I had to install
Marc, your insights much appreciated.
Interesting, though, is a certain generation gap. Security these days
seems to refer to personal information that evil doers can exploit to
deprive you of your poions. I'm a product of the Great
Depresssion, and so security for me fixates on political
On 06-08-2020 01:08, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 01:00:02AM +0200, marc...@welz.org.za wrote:
>> Recall a while ago some company called clearview.ai made the
>> news - given a picture of a person it finds all the other
>> photos of that person online, and does a good job of it too
Hendrik Boom - 06.08.20, 01:08:33 CEST:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 01:00:02AM +0200, marc...@welz.org.za wrote:
> > Recall a while ago some company called clearview.ai made the
> > news - given a picture of a person it finds all the other
> > photos of that person online, and does a good job of it t
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