On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 19:01:02 +0100 Nicolás wrote: > I think we should make a distinction here > between malware, features that could have potentially malicious > consequences, and anti-features that can be disabled).
there is one other distinction lurking in that statement that many tend to conflate as one and the same - that is the distinction between malware that is malicious in the sense of what is more commonly called "spyware" which is entirely a subjective privacy concern, and the sort of malware that actually does objective physical damage to your system, or data - it should be obvious to everyone that many people (perhaps the majority) have little or no concern for online privacy; but surely no one wants their data stolen or their OS broken for the overwhelming majority of computer users, regardless of how adamant or indifferent one is about online privacy, there is a huge demonstrable difference in the actual severity of the "consequences" of those two forms of malware - they should not be so readily conflated, as i often see _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss