You are being picky with words, but here is the copy of his own page


"Cellular Phones

I see that cellular phones are very convenient. I would have got one, if not for certain reprehensible things about them.

Cell phones tracking and surveillance devices. They all enable the phone system to record where the user goes, and many (perhaps all) can be remotely converted into listening devices.

In addition, most of them are computers with nonfree software installed. Even if they don't allow the user to replace the software, someone else can replace it remotely. Since the software can be changed, we cannot regard it as equivalent to a circuit. A machine that allows installation of software is a computer, and computers should run free software.

Nearly every cell phone has a universal back door that allows remote conversion into a listening device. (See Murder in Samarkand, by Craig Murray, for an example.) This is as nasty as a device can get.

From the book Alone Together, by Sherry Turkle, I learned that portable phones make many people's lives oppressive, because they feel compelled to spend all day receiving and responding to text messages which interrupt everything else. Perhaps my decision to reject this convenience for its deep injustice has turned out best in terms of convenience as well.

When I need to call someone, I ask someone nearby to let me make a call. If I use someone else's cell phone, that doesn't give Big Brother any information about me."



So, you still think he does not borrow a cell phone from someone else??? -.^

If you say that it is not such a big deal, that's one thing. It's your opinion and it's a fine opinion if you truly think that. But to say he does not do it, it's just not reading what he wrote himself.

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