Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

rmcellig

I came across this article and started thinking about using pupy from a CD only, due to some of the security issues mentioned in this article.

Thoughts?
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/80067.html?rss=1

Barkin · Joined: 12 Aug 2011 Posts: 803

musher0 · Posted: Mon 03 Mar 2014, 12:52 Post subject:

Hi, gang.

Interesting article. It deals only with personal protective measures, though. Whether
you're on Puppy, or Linux generally, or Windows, or Mac, doesn't matter.

I think the only way we will win back our privacy is to counter-attack: flood the
government snoopers themselves with e-mails each time we detect them -- and send
a copy of our detection to our elected representative and / or Parliament asking for
immediate and efficient action.

One e-mail per detection. Maybe bundle up < lsof -i > (or similar utility), with a
console mailer, in a little script running in the background. Millions and millions of us
would need to fight back, of course, for this to achieve anything.

The retaliation e-mail could contain something like: "Give us our privacy back, 'cause
we, the People, are really fed up with your snooping. Not only have you lost our vote,
but we, the People, are now equipped to co-ordinate and cause DoS's at will on each
and every government site in this country -- including yours. Since you are not properly
defending our privacy, we have no other choice but to defend it ourselves, and we will
not stop until you do."

The threat of an Internet rebellion, written in the present tense and with an efficient play
on words, to get them thinking: that's the only thing thick-headed politicians understand
nowadays.

BFN.

musher0

greengeek · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 4147 Location: New Zealand

Barkin · Joined: 12 Aug 2011 Posts: 803

Barkin · Joined: 12 Aug 2011 Posts: 803

musher0 · Posted: Mon 03 Mar 2014, 16:33 Post subject:

Hi, barkin.

Yeah, them too. Thanks for the informative link.

Silly me, that's probably where (Google) the government snoopers go first. Why go
through the trouble of tapping an Internet line (or whatever), when you already have
the information at your fingetips!

BTW, you may want to add to duckduckgo the following non-tracking search
engines. ixquick and startpage are based in Holland, where it's illegal for anyone
to track a user's searches (if I understood their doc correctly).

https://ixquick.com/do/search and its anonymous gateway to Google,
https://startpage.com/do/search.

Maybe there are others.

For my information, is duckduckgo based in the US?

BFN.

musher0

Barkin · Joined: 12 Aug 2011 Posts: 803