Category: Ethics
Ethics, Privacy
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…
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Ethics, Mood, Privacy
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.
Ethics, Software Libero, Wordpress
La cosa più bella
La cosa più bella di WordPress è che sono orgogliosi di fare Software Libero e che lo dichiarano apertamente!
Ethics, Javascript, Security
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.
Ethics, Privacy, Proprietary software
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 Source: British Member of Parliament publishes 250 pages of damning internal Facebook documents that had been sealed by a US court / Boing Boing Expecially: …they show Facebookers at the highest level — up to…
Ethics, Mood
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!
Ethics, Mood, Proprietary software, Software Libero
“Own your data”, part III: Moving calendar and contacts into my ownCloud // Sebastian Greger
https://sebastiangreger.net/2014/03/own-your-data-part-3-calendar-contacts-owncloud/ Tonight assignment
Android, Ethics, Proprietary software, Smartphones, Software Libero
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…