R.I.P.
AIM will be discontinued today
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Re: AIM will be discontinued today
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It really doesn't matter. For those who are concerned about the privacy and are mindful enough to care about the privacy of others, putting any information on anyone else's computer (like Google's servers) is a leak. You don't know what is being done with those data, intentionally or not. And that would be the case regardless of whether or not the software is free/libre---it's being sent across a network to a destina…
...and folks concerned about security were using AOL Instant Messenger?
I'm 28 and am a free software activist focusing heavily and user privacy and security, iving talks on those issues and meeting with my local school district to discuss how it impacts students.
When I was a teenager in middle school what almost feels like another lifetime ago, I used AIM.
Re: AIM will be discontinued today
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I am again reminded that "youngsters these days" pretty much no longer have this option unless their online footprint is actively managed from Day One. A part of me can't wait to see the President whose entire life can be cherry-picked from various servers and datacenters.
> A part of me can't wait to see the President whose entire life can be cherry-picked from various servers and datacenters. This is much more crazy the more you think about. Right now there are already thousands if not millions of kids who will never be able to get a higher up political position because of what they shared on social media.
Pot has been legalised. At least in some jurisdictions.
Attitudes change. Sometimes profoundly. It can be quite disconcerting when it happens.
(Or when you realise you're living in the aftermath of some previous Great Shift.)