i'm sick of all the data mining. i uninstalled facebook from my phone. they want access to my microphone. why? i also needed space on my phone facebook takes up over 200megs
If you have Android 7 (Marshmallow) it lets you block individual services. I actually trust this version of Android because of the amount of control you have. You can easily disable/enable access to the microphone as you wish.
that is nice but still an illusion of privacy.
these companies know if its you that is buying a product on amazon by the angle in which your holding your phone.
they know post or how long you watch an add they let advertizer know. they know more about us then we know about ourselves.
i'm starting to question if linux is really secure
When my oldest son [Linus Torvalds] was asked the same question: “Has he been approached by the NSA about backdoors?” he said “No”, but at the same time he nodded. Then he was sort of in the legal free. He had given the right answer, [but] everybody understood that the NSA had approached him
he is the founder of linux
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Torvalds
i'm not conpisaritoral i'm just very pissed.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/7/16265906/ultrasound-hack-siri-alexa-google
security is a joke. and not a top priority.
if your site started data mining it would try to sell me some sort of privacy apps
Google's CEO Eric Schmidt declared: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_concerns_regarding_Google
"The practical result of the change is that the DoubleClick ads that follow people around on the web may now be customized to them based on your name and other information Google knows about you. It also means that Google could now, if it wished to, build a complete portrait of a user by name, based on everything they write in email, every website they visit and the searches they conduct."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_concerns_regarding_Google
The correspondence suggests a close relationship between the NSA and Google before former NSA contractor Edward Snowden ever leaked documents detailing the agency’s online spying efforts. One of the two email chains describe a meeting between the NSA director and Google executives near an airport in San Jose, Calif.
“When we reach this point in our projects we schedule a classified briefing for the CEO’s of key companies to provide them a brief on the specific threats we believe can be mitigated and to seek their commitment for their organization to move ahead,” Alexander wrote in June 2012 email to Schmidt. “Google’s participation in refinement, engineering and deployment of the solutions will be essential.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/06/nsa-google_n_5273437.html
the CIA-assisted technology probably most familiar to you is one many of us use on a regular basis: Google Earth. In February 2003, the CIA-funded venture-capitalist firm In-Q-Tel made a strategic investment in Keyhole, Inc.
https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/cia-museum/experience-the-collection/text-version/stories/cias-impact-on-technology.html
Oh I see.. yea that thought comes to my mind a lot actually. I thought I might be the only one. I guess I allow myself to believe even though without truly knowing one or the other it means I'm excepting a fantasy of security. As for just simple data mining mining, I honestly don't care because I like the idea of human habits being studied. Its the idea of more personal data being stored and accessible. Now I am aware that information can be secured but the more security you want, the more it costs. Time, attention, and money are huge factors. This forum alone isn't super secure. No SSL, unknown server location, unknown personnel controlling the firewalls. A lot to be aware of.
Security is something I really want to focus on as a profession but don't see a lot of growth in it. Keep in mind even though the OS might seem like an illusion there are some tech facts that can't be ignored and can be tested. Google is aware that a lot of techs use their stuff so I don't think they wouldn't give them options.
We have whole section for this topic if you want to talk more about it.
http://jdtechservices.xp3.biz/jdaniele/forums/index.php?topic=18.0EDIT: Added link
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