disappointing to see Ubuntu not recommended cause of data leaks/sharing

[Don Griffin]

Ive always recommended Ubuntu to others based on it being open-source and more privacy protective than Apple and Microsoft. It has been rather embarrassing for me that Ubuntu is becoming more and more like Apple and Microsoft with respect to privacy. Microsoft has now been revealed by Snowden-documents as allowing NSA access to Outlook emails and chat, Skype, and Skydrive.

PRISM Break does not recommend Ubuntu because of that stupid Scopes Project sending data to Canonical. I just feel like that whole Scopes data leak issue was such a waste of Ubuntu's limited resources, especially since it hurts Ubuntu's image and turns away people looking for a company they can trust with their personal info in the face of mass surveillance :(

More resources devoted to ubuntu convergence, MIR, etc, would have been better. And it wouldn't have alienated people looking for a privacy-friendly company to turn to in the face of mass surveillance.


https://prism-break.org/
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/nsa-taps-skype-chats-newly-published-snowden-leaks-confirm/
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