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Old December 30th 18, 02:01 AM posted to alt.privacy.anon-server,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Roger Blake[_2_]
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Default Excellent article about Linux

On 2018-12-29, nospam wrote:
your loss. they're very capable devices that can do all sorts of things
that were once considered impossible.


I don't see it as a loss. Nothing they provide is worth the tracking and
surveillance aspects. There is nothing a smartphone can do that I need
or want.

the entire concept is ludicrous. it's tinfoil hat material.


As in Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty Four" it may not be listening all the
time, but you don't know when or where it might be. At a minimum it has
to be listening for keywords to activate the AI functions and you don't
really know when or where it may be doing more. Devices such as Alexa
and Google Home don't even have the battery concern. Then of course there
is the GPS function that tracks everywhere you go. (How else is Siri
going to recommend restaurants that are near you?)

You might want to look up a guy named Ed Snowden if you believe that
being concerned about mass surveillance is merely "tinfoil hat material."

the cloud is much more than 'just a collection of servers'.


It is not. I've been working in technology for over 40 years and the
internet for over 35 years. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a
duck... guess what, it's a duck.

it's more reliable than anything you could possibly do with your own
system, unless you have a similar budget as they do, which is extremely
unlikely.


Nonsense. It is not difficult to implement one's own effective backup
regimen. If you think no one has ever lost anything in "thuh cloud"
you're delusionary. Start with the people who lost their stuff with
due to a bug in the Windows 10 1809 update.

you weren't streaming music or video in the 1970s, locally or the cloud.


That is irrelevent. From an architectural standpoint it is the same
type of client-server concept. You have a local device whose limitaions
require computing power and storage at a remote location. The actual
application does not change the fundamental concept, nor does it change
simply because you are using a smartphone with "thuh cloud" instead of
a terminal connecting to a remote mainframe.

missing the point entirely.


I would say you do not even have a point.

nothing about the cloud prevents that.


When processing and storage is taking place on someone else's servers
(which once again is all that "thuh cloud" really is), then you effectively
do not have control. You really have no idea where your data is being
stored, who will have access to it under what conditions, or even if
you will have access to it in the future.

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