debiman wrote:this is only one of many icebergs of which we only see the tip.
You bet it is...
(Concerning only two of the bigger icebergs,)
1)
Facebook is a CIA front company (
https://web.archive.org/web/20120524105 ... a-y-darpa/) and even has Nazis behind it (
http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/radi ... ok/885357/). Its officials admittedly want to end Privacy on the Internet (
https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/com ... -anonymity). And, if you all want to know what these officials think of the people using it, you need to go no further than reading what Mr Zuckerberg once said:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/14 ... rust_dumb/2)
Google is another CIA/NSA front company (
https://www.prisonplanet.com/group-call ... d-nsa.html +
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence ... 36451a959e). (Who doesn't use Gmail, Android smartphones...)
(And, concerning the whole sea that we're navigating in,)
3) The
Internet, itself, was a creation of the US government. And, the ultimate purpose of this invention is to spy on everybody (
https://www.c-span.org/video/?440695-1/ ... nce-valley). Having for that same purpose been previously built an electronic Big Brother, that pays attention to (and records) everything that happens on this network (
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/big-brot ... d-software +
https://twitter.com/BlackFerdyPT/status ... 4950077440).
(Also, concerning the computers that most people, in developed countries, nowadays use,)
4) Almost every computer being sold, for years now, comes with a
backdoor inside of it, from where it can be surveilled/controlled, in a way undetectable by the operating system being used (
https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intel).
(So, the only real way to have Privacy, nowadays, is to *not* use computers connected to the Internet...)
I just *love* the stability, much more bug-free nature, and also modular installation options, of Debian. Apart from the unfortunate adoption of "systemd" (viewtopic.php?f=20&t=129881&start=165#p671030) this distribution is *great*.