Hello,



IT IS FASCINATING HOW MUCH THE INFORMATIC WORLD TRY TO LOCK YOU SO HARD AND TO RULE YOUR LIFE. ARE SOME OF GOOGLE/MICROSOFT THINGS REALLY LEGAL?

You almost can't have a smartphone without being under spying activities, you need a google account to install apps, ms store it is quite the same, apple will not let you install anything without making an account and giving infos about you,
you must give your name, address, phone number to use your tablet,
you aren't even owning your own pictures (eg. Facebook),..., you can be under evil plots to take more of your money (eg. Skype, meetics,..) with well designed websites,...,...



Soon Windows 10 is out there. Your private life and private data are getting step by step more in danger.

Your emails are read by FBI machines, Google machines, Microsoft machines,... and will be revealed if needed.

Where is the limit since even at home, in your day to day life, you cannot even have privacy over a computer?

What can you actually do without internet today?
Your computer must be plugged to the web to be used.
However, we have always the choice, still, not to get internet and not to get an account, but in practice, would you?

Your MS tablet is actually forcing you to get an Outlook account !
Your Android tablet is actually forcing you to get a Google account !
Is it freedom and respect of others, member of groups, or ethnics,...?



Are you owner of your own phone? You aren't even allowed to install Linux on it, even on a Linux brother, or you must JAIL break.

Today we are renting softwares. We don't buy them anymore. We must pay early e.g. Microsoft office and many highly expensive softs for office for pro.

Step by step, day by day, Google and Microsoft are everywhere and get more control of your life, makes huge amount of money out of it, and lock you with amazing apps, get more of your money.

One day there will be no return.

Such as in futuritics movies, maybe, you will go to jail if you do not use Microsoft or Google.



Hey you, - guys, owner of Android Google, Windows,... Phone and Tablets, you use your hotmail, gmail, facebook,... account and click on "yes" on the website to allow the non-respect your privacy, maybe it is time to change and give more chances for Linux and Opensource.



So, one possible idea to give more nuance, respect, happiness,... in life is :
to install the opensource GNU Linux, to create your own softwares and share, to use GCC (C)/C++/... to make great softs, to join the work of dev of opensource, to support projects that are making Linux tablets, to get more "opensource", to install Ubuntu touch if you want, and to never let you obliged to click "yes" on website, tablets,... forcing you to disrepect of your private life and private data.

Please go to opensource. Don't let your life and especially the one of the next generations under non respectul plots !

Support the development of kernel, make new drivers ; Support the Linus dev ; Support Opensource and the community which will never lock you forever !



All the Best to GNU LINUX !



More reading:
http://www.businessinsider.com/googl...ld-2013-5?IR=T
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
human right violations of google: http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679720/t...soft-and-yahoo
Why politics do let Google, Microsoft, Yahoo? - $$?

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I'll be dead, so meh...

Yes, I worry about we're it's all going, and from what I'm observing these trends (wrapped up by 'sign you life away' terms of agreement) are impacting on us MUCH sooner than that, so it is concerning IMHO. Humankind loves a sense of freedom, and it is steadily being eroded by some of the things mentioned above. I'm very interested in the thoughts of others here, especially those that can share optimistic arguments and ideas that might help allay concerns some of us have for the future.

'sign you life away' terms of agreements is a cool description.

Years ago there was an issue and many debates that Credit Cards/Paiements cards would track you, do you remember? Was it similar as what we are living today?

Neither, but that third option "Sure not, None of them, Other, Nonsences, Complete Nonsences,..." is too fragmentary of an option for me to choose even that.

I just feel that 2100 is so very long away and that the world will be a vastly different place 85 years from now.

Google is no more, it is now Alphabet lol

Gentlepeople, remember how utterly new ... all of this technology is.

No one is yet looking at the dark side of this shiny new coin.

Yet.

No one has yet seen fit to realize that: "this is what World War III will (soon) be."

Sure, people are used to the idea of "shadowy government agencies" spying on people. What they don't consider is the vast amount of highly sensitive information that is in the private sector, subject to no controls nor regulations at all. No one knows what information is collected, where it is, nor whom has access to it.

Furthermore, we have filled our data centers with literally millions of "imported, borrowed people" ... so many that the responsible agencies claim not to know just how many, although that is absurd ... without ever uttering the thought, "enemy agent." Among millions of honest, hard-working "imports" ... whose backgrounds, by the way, we can't really thoroughly check ... it really takes only a minuscule number of psychopaths.

Likewise, we have put our data into "the happy Cloud," and congratulated ourselves on how this reduces both our electric bill and our direct-labor cost ... again placing our trust in people and entities that have no reason to be trusted.

It's something we so-easily forget: "Knowledge Is Power." We are delighting in all this new-found ability and Kewel New Stuff, without protecting ourselves from its mis-use. Instead, we are giving those psychopaths opportunities that have never before existed, in all of human history. Therefore, very soon, they will come. Human nature ... its dark side ... is like that.

No, I am not wearing a tin-foil hat, nor am I being racist or bigoted. But I do read a lot of history books, and the same sober lessons are repeated over and over again. We are immersed in a time of technological influence such as, as I said, has never before existed in all(!) of human history up to this point, but we have not changed ourselves. And, in terms of public policy and law-making, we are still trapped in "Cold War thinking." (The stupendous amounts of money that are in play, and the ease by which such money can wind up in the hands of elected and appointed officials, does not make matters any easier.)

"There are none so blind as those who will not see." And, as I've said before, it is really our responsibility, as members of the data-processing industry, to be directing public awareness and public policy in these important matters. "Before ..."

I DID IT !!!!

JOIN ME !!!!!!!!!!!! (herewith an opensource screenshot)!!

(I installed email/CITADEL/Apache opensource on my Debian Server as respecting privacy alternative - nothing that will steal my private data, life, and privacy)

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Make sure everything is encrypted end to end otherwise your ISP can still spy on you or anyone who routes your traffic.

Your email should be encrypted "as a routine matter of course." For exactly the same reasons that you should use "https:" when conducting any business over the Internet.

On my (OS/X) system, email can be routinely digitally-signed using either S/MIME or GPG ... and encrypted/decrypted in a manner that is quite transparent to me. Linux (e.g. KDE) can do precisely the same ... as can Windows, if you want it to.

A message is sent and received "in plaintext," and encrypted/decrypted on the fly. Messages which purport to be from a certain addressee are automatically checked for a corresponding digital signature.

This won't stop traffic analysis. It won't stop government agencies with three-letter acronym names. It won't stop someone from holding a gun to your head and getting the key. It won't let you defy a court order or a search warrant. But it will provide two things that ordinary e-mail does not have:

(1) The message will be sealed in an envelope: So the postman won't be reading your letters. After all, "it's none of his business," right?

(2) The message is protected against forgery, tampering, and impersonation: Even if the message isn't encrypted, so long as it is signed, you can be confident that it was "delivered as-tendered," and that it did come from the purported sender. (All encrypted messages are signed, but a non-encrypted message can also be signed, and routinely should be. Signature blocks are not normally visible in messages.)

These are the two things that you require to make e-mail "trust-worthy." IMHO, it is quite foolish to use e-mail for any "real" purpose without these two basic protections. Any decent e-mail client on any operating system can "just do it," in a cross-platform compatible, industry standard way. (A choice of two ways, actually ...) Crypto-capable mail clients are available on mobile devices, as well, and they, too, "just work."

P. S. It completely baffles me why corporations send out very important e-mails to their customers, that are not digitally signed and/or encrypted. It also baffles me why web-mail clients (particularly Google's) do not contain built-in support for signature verification and crypto. Extremely sensitive stuff ... like tickets(!) ... is sent via e-mail with no protection or vouchsafe at all. Thereby "placing implicit trust" in a system that by design should have none.

I can see it now, MS and Goole saying "IF YOU ONLY NEW THE POWER OF THE DARK SIDE"

It's too bad there is no choice like "who cares...I'll be dead"

Anyway, Isn't MS and Google already trying to take control of the world TODAY?