Nadim, I'm with you. I'm not sure it's the perfect solution for everyone, but like Nathan said, if you already trust Google, I think it's a good option.
On 6 February 2013 07:12, Andreas Bader <noergelpi...@hotmail.de> wrote: > Why don't you use an old thinkpad or something with Linux, you have the > same price like a Chromebook but more control over the system. And you > don't depend on the 3G and Wifi net. We started with the notion of Linux, and we were attracted to Chromebooks for a bunch of reasons. Going back to Linux loses all the things we were attracted to. - ChromeOS's attack surface is infinitely smaller than with Linux - The architecture of ChromeOS is different from Linux - process separation through SOP, as opposed to no process separation at all - ChromeOS was *designed* to have you logout, and hand the device over to someone else to login, and get no access to your stuff. Extreme Hardware attacks aside, it works pretty well. - ChromeOS's update mechanism is automatic, transparent, and basically foolproof. Having bricked Ubuntu and Gentoo systems, the same is not true of Linux. - Verified Boot, automatic FDE, tamper-resistant hardware Something I'm curious about is, if any less-popular device became popular amoung the activist community - would the government view is as an indicator of interest? Just like they block Tor, would they block Chromebooks? It'd have to get pretty darn popular first though. -tom -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
