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Re: I have something to hide

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Post by microtonal »

pierreozoux wrote: post #13
userisuser wrote: post #8

I commend you for compiling all of the resources. I would like to point out that your choice of Ubuntu linux is deficient. If one was concerned about privacy the choices that come to mind are tails/whonix. Debian and OpenBSD both respect privacy

We try to target broad audience, and indeed ubuntu is easier to use than Debian for a windows user. There is the TL;DR on top. The idea here is if you need privacy right now, use Tails. And then for yor day to day life, here are the steps.

But Ubuntu sends all queries typed in Unity to Amazon by default. Canonical says that the queries are anonimized, but no one can check what data is actually leaked.

Otherwise thanks for the great site!

Re: I have something to hide

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Post by Koahku »

pierreozoux wrote: post #13
userisuser wrote: post #8

I commend you for compiling all of the resources. I would like to point out that your choice of Ubuntu linux is deficient. If one was concerned about privacy the choices that come to mind are tails/whonix. Debian and OpenBSD both respect privacy

We try to target broad audience, and indeed ubuntu is easier to use than Debian for a windows user. There is the TL;DR on top. The idea here is if you need privacy right now, use Tails. And then for yor day to day life, here are the steps.

I think that adding a few other user-friendly distributions such as Fedora or Mint in the "Install Linux" step might be a good idea.

Also, I haven't really followed the developments on this story but Ubuntu did effectively spy on you at some point by sending your searches to Amazon, considering this it is a pretty bad choice to recommend it in my opinion.

Re: I have something to hide

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Post by peeters »

pierreozoux wrote: post #9
egwynn wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Third parties are happy to extract value from data you share. Even if you’re not doing anything wrong , controlling that information has an impact. The way I see it, saying “I have something to hide” is, WLOG, the same as saying “I want to control what gets shared with whom.” EDIT: If the site author is reading this, tip #6 misspells ‘diaspora’ as ‘dispoara’.

Thanks, it is now corrected.

Also, "gonvernment"

Re: I have something to hide

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Post by chinathrow »

pierreozoux wrote: post #20
dkns wrote: post #17

"A website that wants you to understand that you're being tracked everywhere on the internet" Oh great! piwik script in source code Oh great! That really helps to drive the message.

I was lazy to right a script to parse my server logs! But common, we are not using GoogleAnalytics :)

If you preach against tracking, the first rule is: do not track. do not store logs at all.

Re: I have something to hide

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Post by rpcope1 »

rayalez wrote: post #26

Website is broken on my mobile browser. http://imgur.com/dILU51x

Speaking of which, did anyone else notice that the Initializr default favicon is still present? The owner might be wise to find his own (and to make it look less Initializr-y). :)
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