[Ubuntu-eg] Stallman says cloud computing is a trap

[AMahdy AbdElAziz]

+1 for Amr Ali. I kept repeating this for ever, it's your choice to either
stay outdated and ages behind technology just seeking a way for a fake
"privacy" and "free software", or to just move on like everybody on planet
earth is peacefully with his life. What's the big issue if someone in USA
knows your current location right "now"? What if they just hired a physical
person to track your current location, would you be able to stop him?

Just place a big bold line between your internet life and your real life
and that's it.

GNU Linux is "free open source software" but you never know what the
executable that you download pre-built contains. Will you download the
source of everything and compile? then make sure to "read" the source code
of everything too AND tell me how you gonna compile a compiler from source.

Right now even if you open the internet from a direct connection with no
proxies, how can you tell that whoever providing you internet (your ISP) is
not tracking you? They easily CAN do it, and if it's not them then whoever
provide your ISP internet CAN do it. Big hassle to worry about it and at
the end of the day, do you really have something on internet to hide it?
Please just hide it now and forever!


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AMahdy AbdElAziz
http://www.AMahdy.net


On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Amr Ali <amr.ali.cc at gmail.com> wrote:

> The problem is not privacy, what is privacy? It's BS, doesn't exist. If
> someone
> wants privacy they should simply stop using the Internet, find a cave and
> protect it against satellite thermal imaging, and stay there for good.
> Also it
> is not about interfaces, Stallman is simply being stupid and ignorant by
> suggesting that having your own mail-server or replicating any of today's
> infrastructure technologies will help you in any significant way;
> absolutely
> not! It's about Big Data and information dissemination.
>
> There are just a few reasons that most "people" really need privacy for
> and they
> are mostly unjustified and often ludicrous. There's no way you can assert
> the
> privacy of a piece of information once it goes outside your machine;
> granted
> there are methods to help you "feel" more secure, but truth of the matter
> is,
> security in itself is a "feeling", it is an illusion, it's confidence
> built upon
> the unlikelihood of a persistent adversary, and that's why we invented the
> nomenclature of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) which is used to account
> for
> worst case scenario profiles of malware, individuals, and organizations.
> Nothing
> can be secure or private indefinitely, it is theoretically impossible due
> to the
> lack of an epistemological authoritative root that can assert the security
> or
> privacy of any piece of information (e.g., Certificate Authorities are
> pseudo-roots because who can be authoritative about their security? No
> one!)
>
> I've helped build services that you just won't believe how accurately it
> can
> pin-point your location and identify you out of millions of other users
> based on
> very small data facets it collects once you visit any site that uses the
> service
> (and you cannot do much about it btw unless you want to start using Lynx),
> it
> sits on-top of billions of fingerprints. It is simply preposterous to even
> think
> that you have significant control over anything that comes out of your
> computer.
>
> </rant>
>
> National security under today's challenges (i.e., the fact that the
> virtual can
> and does affect the physical) forces governments to tap into the most
> fertile
> pool of intelligence.. I've gone on and on about this on my blog
> (
> http://d4de.tumblr.com/post/52374664591/thoughts-on-big-data-and-information-dissemination
> ).
>
> On 06/09/2013 10:13 PM, Eslam Mostafa wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> > while reading this article:
> >
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.stallman
> >
> > i was offended by this "The concept of using web-based programs like
> Google's
> > Gmail is "worse than stupidity", according to a leading advocate of free
> > software." yeah felt stupid for a moment :D what does the guy use ?
> >
> > "this mail has been sent using GMAIL"
> >
> > --
> > Eslam Mostafa,
> > My Blog <http://cseslam.wordpress.com>
> > My Website <http://eslammostafa.com>
> > GNOME Memeber
> > Python/js/GTK+ Developer
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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> Amr Ali
>
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