In the age of the IME and the hundreds of billions of dollars the US spends on US covert operations. I'll let you guess what the path of least resistance is.
I think “examples” refers to hard proof. Anyone could make an unsubstantiated claim about anyone or anything else if they wanted to, so it is not very productive to include.
It won't be listening to you if they don't care to.
The idea of having a device that listens to everything around in your home is unnerving, for me atleast.
The problem with saying "they would never do something like this" or "I have nothing to hide so why do I care" is that your trusting people thousands of miles away from you who are heavily influenced by the government...
If your not comfortable having a policeman sit on your desk while you work on your computer then I might not be a good idea supporting products like these.
Personally, Siri can screw off. I am more than happy to check the weather myself. :)
If Apple wants to eavesdrop on you I don’t see how Siri changes the situation. You already have a networked device with a microphone, turning or not turning on an additional service hardly makes a difference.
And that's just it, isn't it. Siri is just a name. A cartoon.
The reality is that at a minimum, it's an organization of profit motivated people trying to listen to you. Maybe Apple is controlled by nice people today, but how many other companies will justify their own actions by pointing to Apple's practices.
And when those companies are bought and sold, or go out of business after a period of desperation, what happens in those moments?
Justify this with Apple, and ten more organizations follow in those footsteps.
It doesn't fragment the community as you can call kotlin code from java and vice versa. Seamlessly.
Kotlin is great in that it brings Java 8 features to Java 6(lambda expressions, functional programming, etc.) and more. It's a boon to productivity and makes programming in the Java ecosystem fun again.
There is a sometimes increase in compiling speed but it's very marginal and the method counts increase with the transpiling but it's not noticable until the app get's on the larger side.
Doesn't matter. They'll be a gov't backdoor in either the hardware or the software so you might as well get an android phone and load copperhead os on it as it will have the same result.
The Librem laptops come with hardware killswitches. The aim is to do the same with the Librem 5. Kind of hard for governments to spy on you using a microphone, camera, etc... without electricity.
With the proposed design for the Librem 5, you can turn off the individual features of the phone without turning off the phone. So for example, you can turn off the camera (with a hardware switch, which is not something that can be overridden remotely) whilst still being able to browse the web. As far as I know there are no other modern phones with that feature.
I've switched to duckduckgo for security reasons and noticed not much difference. Even when I switched back to google for something I couldn't find with duckduckgo the search results are very close.
I use holmes google chrome extension and it's awesome. Once a website is bookmarked, it can be easily searched with by simply *[tab] and it searches for it. Highly recommended.
No point 0Auth apps if google has access to it. Rather pay for my e-mail service than to use google, whose source of revenue is directly in conflict with my interest of privacy and security.
I highly recommend protonemail.com. Has all the bells and whistles and its major feature is user privacy and security.
I recently started using Tails so for security reasons coughbackdoorwindowsioscough,.. and found that it worked surprisely well. It has a disk utility, liber office, and the drivers even worked for my wireless dongle! Kudos to the Tails team!
