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There's another solution: Avoid closed source applications and closed source OS. There's other OS besides the ones you mentioned. And there's other small form factor computers besi…

"What android is doing is making MITMing yourself harder." That's not good for users. I do not rely on Android, Windows or Linux. Not really much an app user either. But if I were …

"... it won't change a thing." So if the user does not want to trust a certificate installed by someone else on the device, she can "revoke" it? And by the same token if she wants …

Any device that prevents a user from installing their own CA root cert is not one I would use. I'm not sure if they have started to do this or not. In terms of protecting users, th…

Imagine if they had tried this with their corporate customers. My advice to home users would be to disconnect their Windows computers from the internet and use some other OS for ta…

The parent stated "Data generated on my phone belongs to me." I interpreted this as "Data generated by me on my phone belongs to me." The user could agree to license her rights to …

"I should be able to see what data an app is sending..." And you can. There are many ways. Something as simple as 2 socat instances and netsed works great as a quick and dirty but …

OK, then how do we separate the data that is his versus data that belongs to somene else? Maybe we would have to look at what is being sent from the app?

I have always liked the download.gmane.org option. I rarely use the web interface. I hope download.gmane.org does not disappear. Gmane is a truly great service. IMO, it does not ne…

Like AOL. Yes, I agree!

Any similar projects aimed at compiling Linux binaries on non-Linux Unix? (Excluding qemu, etc.) Some non-Linux Unix have Linux emulation and can translate a subset of Linux syscal…

What if Zuckerberg had received a cease and desist letter when he was accessing computers without authorization at Harvard? Before any student willingly sent him personal informati…

Good.

"For instance it doesn't have everything you need to validate certificates..." Yet it has all the CA crap thrown in, via the overloaded openssl binary. As "examples". And according…

I guess the way to test your theory would be to look at users who had IRC to use and nothing else -- no choice. The truth I believe is that users adapt to whatever software they mu…

Agree. Legacy code.

You missed the point. The comment suggests the opposite of what you think it suggests. I guess I need to work on my communication skills.

The following comment could apply to hundreds of similar submissions to HN in recent years. Many people -- many of them young people I suspect -- have invested a lot of time learni…

Was Kildall a better programmer than Gates?^U Who wrote more elegant software? Who undercut the price of the other's software? And why? Microsoft's early success was not due to ori…

Users should have the option of choosing or not choosing to use a locked bootloader. For some users, the benefits of an unlocked bootloader exceed the costs of not letting Microsof…