A weather applet itself does not spy, my concern is creating a list of all IP addresses a portable machine connects from. This is no concern on a stationary desktop, it is a serious concern on a laptop that travels to a variety of places you do not want all to appear in a list somewhere subject to subpeona or to bulk surveillance.
On 7/12/2015 at 2:39 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" <[email protected]> wrote: > >On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 14:21:21 -0400, [email protected] wrote: >>Mate-panel clock applet if and only if configured with a location >to >>show weather > >Indeed, I'm using lxpanel's weather applet, but as already pointed >out, >I don't care about security and a weather applet perhaps doesn't >spy, >it likely only does indirectly provide information and could >become a >security risk for some computer usage. > >>Chromium (requires disabling Google services) >> >>Chrome (closed, cannot disable all the Google spyware) > >atom-editor available by a PPA spies, but I guess it completely >can be >turned off, sylpheed available by the official repositories checks >for >updates, but it can be turned off. > >Some users should consider what level of privacy they need. > >I don't need protection against a regime were people are murdered, >but >I dislike to inform what I do, to provide my passwords etc.. > >-- >ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list >[email protected] >Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
