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"If you are carrying a portable surveillance and tracking device, please turn it off. They have already tracked you here. They already know that you are listening to me, so there is no need for you to keep telling them that you are still here. And if they want to listen to what I am saying, we're going to publish the video recording anyway. They don't need to turn on your portable surveillance device to do it." ~Richard Stallman during the third international GPLv3 conference after a cellphone rang.
Friday, 23-Nov-12 21:47:11 UTC from web-
@omni Clearly the words of a person with a solid grasp on reality.
Friday, 23-Nov-12 21:53:36 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark My next phone is going to be one supported by the free "Replicant" system because I do like Android, but I kinda am starting to understand that it is more of a risk than I should actually be taking with my device.
Friday, 23-Nov-12 21:55:31 UTC from web-
@omni *with my privacy. The device doesn't really care. I know they can still track my location over those... phone, thingies, forgot how they are called, but an alternative OS like Replicant should at least stop Google from knowing all the stuff.
Friday, 23-Nov-12 21:56:15 UTC from web-
@omni Not using Google Talk should help as well to not let Google into my life, but I can't think of a cool domain name to use together with my local XMPP server and, without a domain name, you can't communicate with other XMPP instances.
Friday, 23-Nov-12 21:57:25 UTC from web-
@omni What would also help would be getting rid of Gmail. And switching my Google Calendar over to... this other thing I can host myself. But I need a server to take control back over my information and I can't think of a cheap one which I can trust to buy!
Friday, 23-Nov-12 21:58:32 UTC from web-
@omni Unless you seriously think Amazon is using the AWS hypervisor to spy on people (A task that would cost them far more to functionally operate than they could conceivably benefit) AWS will probably do. You can install your choice of free operating system even.
Friday, 23-Nov-12 22:01:14 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark Seeing how much I enjoy setting everything up locally, and having a physical system I can hug whenever things work as I tried to set them up, I think I'd rather do it locally myself. Thanks for the tip, though.
Friday, 23-Nov-12 22:05:55 UTC from web-
@omni I actually used to run a free XMPP relay. If you need a hand with it do let me know.
Friday, 23-Nov-12 22:07:39 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark I currently have a Prosody XMPP instance running on my own system, so the only thing I may need help with later is letting it communicate to other servers if it doesn't work out. I don't have a server or domain yet, though, so that'll still take some time. At any rate, thanks for offering a helping hand.
Friday, 23-Nov-12 22:09:08 UTC from web-
@omni Well trying to take control of your personal data footprint is an admirable objective. I don't know if you use a browser that /does/ extensions, but "Privacyfix" is probably worth a look.
Friday, 23-Nov-12 22:10:38 UTC from web
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@ceruleanspark Wasn't that the one that had a memory leak that shot your bill into four figures and had to be shut down as a result?
Friday, 23-Nov-12 22:11:03 UTC from StatusNet Android-
@redenchilada Well yeah, but so long as he's /not/ attempting to run openfire on AWS that won't happen. It's never happened with anything else I've run on AWS either. Even when ECH got hacked and rooted 8 ways from sunday because I left the server exposed to the public internet and completely unpatched, my bill didn't go that crazy.
Friday, 23-Nov-12 22:12:50 UTC from web
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@omni Google might find out about all that porn you sign up for if you do it under a gmail account.
Friday, 23-Nov-12 22:02:22 UTC from web-
@greenenchilada Me? Porn? Yeah, right :P
Friday, 23-Nov-12 22:04:34 UTC from web-
@omni More proof of how much you hide your porn. You would go as far to lie to your best friend.
Friday, 23-Nov-12 22:05:41 UTC from web-
@greenenchilada You're not my best friend :P
Friday, 23-Nov-12 22:08:19 UTC from web-
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@greenenchilada America is the last country I would ever want to go in my entire life, so unlikely :P
Friday, 23-Nov-12 22:12:55 UTC from web-
Friday, 23-Nov-12 22:14:38 UTC from web
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@greenenchilada I live in The Netherlands. Small country in Europe, that somehow manages to be semi-important to others. We have some good and some bad things, but all-round I'm not all too disappointed with the way things go here.
Friday, 23-Nov-12 22:16:11 UTC from web
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@omni A cell tower. The thing is, unless you're personally reviewing all the code of every app you install, you don't know what they're doing.
Friday, 23-Nov-12 21:58:09 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark I look at the permissions of apps and run a Firewall, and try to use apps from F-Droid instead of Google Play whenever possible. Even though that only makes it possible to read the code, I do know what you mean. You'll always have to put some trust in others, but I'd rather trust people who have been marked as "good people" by the FSF than trust properly-dressed spokespeople of big companies with their shiny blue eyes.
Friday, 23-Nov-12 22:00:32 UTC from web
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@omni Oh boy, so you're one of those "Google is tracking our every waking moment" people too.
Friday, 23-Nov-12 21:58:51 UTC from StatusNet Android-
@redenchilada That took you long to notice, I thought you already knew several months ago :P
Friday, 23-Nov-12 22:03:39 UTC from web-
@omni No, I knew you were a rabid "free software" fanboy, but I wasn't aware you were also paranoid about big mean ol' Google snooping into your top-secret conversations about what you had for lunch today.
Friday, 23-Nov-12 22:06:22 UTC from StatusNet Android
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@juicyorange Google makes money from advertisers. Advertisements which are correctly targeted are more effective. If advertisements are more effective, the advertisers are more happy and will continue to use Google's services for advertisements. Their whole existence is all about gathering as much information about you as they can, so that they can target advertisements as well as possible on you and make more money.
Friday, 23-Nov-12 22:02:27 UTC from web -
@thatonestocking This has nothing to do with someone personally wanting to spy on me, these are automated processes. However, they do allow people to look back whenever they feel like it, and it has been used often enough.
Friday, 23-Nov-12 22:03:23 UTC from web -
@thatonestocking That doesn't stop google tracking you. That merely prevents you seeing the results.
Friday, 23-Nov-12 22:05:10 UTC from web -
@thatonestocking That only stops the end result of targeted advertisements, it doesn't stop any of the tracking :P
Friday, 23-Nov-12 22:05:19 UTC from web -
@thatonestocking Tomato Tomato.
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