On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, Tim Connors wrote:
On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, Petros wrote:
There are still mystifying permission requests. E.g. the YouTube app:
Camera - take pictures and videos Allows the app to take pictures and videos with the camera. This permission allows the app to use the camera at any time without your confirmation.
I want to watch YouTube - not YouTube watching me!
“The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further. With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end. Every citizen, or at least every citizen important enough to be worth watching, could be kept for twenty-four hours a day under the eyes of the police and in the sound of official propaganda, with all other channels of communication closed. The possibility of enforcing not only complete obedience to the will of the State, but complete uniformity of opinion on all subjects, now existed for the first time.”
It sounded familar .. Funnily I read Orwell's 1984 in East Germany, copied and bound as a "book" by a friend. It was forbidden then. We related it to our environment: "When three of us sit together, one of us is from the Stasi". Well, the 1000 pages about a 24 years old one written by 17 people, school-mates, "friends" and church people speak volumes about how true it was, literally. Yesterday I read an article by Daniel Ellsberg (the man with the Pentagon Papers): http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-07-07/opinions/40427629_1_daniel-ell... "Many people compare Edward Snowden to me unfavorably for leaving the country and seeking asylum, rather than facing trial as I did. I don’t agree. The country I stayed in was a different America, a long time ago." In 1971, America was a much less punitive country. Look the witch-hunt against Assange, Snowden, Manning, look at Guantanamo - the gloves are off and the majority of people support it. Add the technical means available to the authorities and you know where we're heading. I consider Open Source as more important than ever. To protect our privacy. Regards Peter