Furthermore, to back the "claims":
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I assume you stumbled upon [prism-break.org](https://prism-break.org/en/),
which is a great source for privacy awareness (I use it myself)
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you know about [fixubuntu.com](https://fixubuntu.com/), which is being run by a
(one of the) known technologist(s) [Micah Lee](https://twitter.com/micahflee),
who's a board member of the [Freedom of the
Press](https://freedom.press/about/board) along with Edward Snowden
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Micah wrote several articles for the
[EFF](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-amazon-ads-and-data-leaks)
of which he was a part of as staff technologist
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he also writes for [The Intercept](https://t.co/SVBndefGlq), the outlet
established after the Snowden leaks. One of the core members is [Glenn
Greenwald](https://theintercept.com/staff/glenn-greenwald/) - one of the first
journalists to interview Snowden in his hotel room in Hong Kong in 2013
Why I'm saying this is when someone like Micah (and he's not the only one) says
Ubuntu's derivatives are safe, then they are.
Dr. Stallman is right, but often seems paranoid, so to say.
No one can ever know for sure. The general rule is if you are too much
concerned about privacy and security you shouldn't use a computer, as since
you're using somebody else's code (OS), you're at the mercy of that particular
someone.
[Learn about how to protect yourself on the
internet](https://prism-break.org/en/)
[Why it is important to encrypt your
communications](https://freedom.press/encryption-works)
[An easy how-to guide to PGP (Pretty Good
Privacy)](https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/)
Nothing ruins creativity like too many voices weighing in. We call it the Ice
Cream Principle. Tell 10 people to go get ice cream with one condition: they
all have to agree on one flavour. That flavour is going to be chocolate or
vanilla every time. Groups of people don't agree on what's cool or interesting,
they agree on what's easy to agree on.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Malware in Ubuntu-Gnome?
Time (UTC): September 20 2015 4:32 pm
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
I want to ask if desktop search surveillance is included or excluded in
Gnome variant of Ubuntu, and what references endorse answers to this
question;
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.en.html
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