Ethics
Facebook’s security team tracks posts, location for ‘BOLO’ threat list
Facebook security monitors users who have made aggressive comments, as well as former employees, through a “be on lookout” or “BOLO” list. It can use its apps and web sites to track the location of these people as it deems necessary.
Source: Facebook’s security team tracks posts, location for ‘BOLO’ threat list
I never used FaceBook (Android) app and I will never use it, until they release its sources under a license compatible to AGPv3.
It may not be enough thought, it may be necessary to pass through The Onion Router or proxies.
How Streaming Music Could Be Harming the Planet – Slashdot
The Internet, Divided Between the US and China, Has Become a Battleground – Slashdot
Questa la scrivo in italiano perché il dibattito qui necessita di essere stimolato: leggete The Internet, Divided Between the US and China, Has Become a Battleground – Slashdot
La rete cinese è un incubo di telesorveglianza, peggio, molto peggio di quel che diveca Orwell in 1984.
La cosa più bella
La cosa più bella di WordPress è che sono orgogliosi di fare Software Libero e che lo dichiarano apertamente!
Exploiting Developer Infrastructure Is Ridiculously Easy
The open-source ecosystem is broken
Source: Exploiting Developer Infrastructure Is Ridiculously Easy
That’s why Debian has its own repositories.
A damning internal Facebook document
British Member of Parliament publishes 250 pages of damning internal Facebook documents that had been sealed by a US court
Expecially:
…they show Facebookers at the highest level — up to CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg — conspiring to trick Android users about how much data was being gathered by an update to the Facebook app
So I was doing good sticking to theire mobile website and refusing to install their apps, even the “lite” one.
Microsoft is building its own Chrome browser to replace Edge – The Verge
Microsoft is building its own Chrome browser to replace Edge – The Verge
Another sound and strong reason to stick to Firefox!
“Own your data”, part III: Moving calendar and contacts into my ownCloud // Sebastian Greger
Like a drug
I naïvely thought that I wasn’t so reliant on the “we have shun our don’t be evil motto” organization (hint G00gle).
How fool I was. I didn’t even have the phone number of my wife saved into my own CardDav address book.
She phoned me to ask about my sprained ankle and my phone didn’t even recognised her call.
The tittle of this piece maybe excessive. I suspect that many proprietary services are similar. Until a few days ago I shunned the golden prison of Apple. Google is no better. Android may be Free Software but being released with a non persistent license it is only instrumental to give Google more power.