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On 11/28/2017 04:47 PM, White_Rabbit wrote:
> Il 28 novembre 2017 22:33:06 CET, Timothy Pearson
> ha scritto:
>> […] Think about that: *games*. Giving
>> up
>> privacy and control to waste time in front of a *game*. […]
> (I'm sorry, I know this i
Il 28 novembre 2017 22:33:06 CET, Timothy Pearson
ha scritto:
>[…] Think about that: *games*. Giving
>up
>privacy and control to waste time in front of a *game*. […]
(I'm sorry, I know this is not a reasonable use of the list)
You've never played "Metal Gear Solid", have you? I might have drun
On Monday 27. November 2017 13.52.55 Giovanni Biscuolo wrote:
>
> please also consider that many respectable free software supporters are
> proposing solutions that are **useless tech workarounds**; e.g. looking at
> https://privacylab.yale.edu/ , in the "What we do" box, I read: "Hosting
> Tor",
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I was using "unlicensed" somewhat facetiously from a large content
provider perspective; specifically, in the common usage of "not paying a
license fee back to the vendor on a continuous basis". The general idea
was that the machine vendor wants to se
Jost to note that not all copies of Linux are unlicensed.
The unlicensed ones are those shipped or provided by non-free system
distributions that happen to break the terms of the license (currently:
99%).
Besides, the Linux project itself seems to currently put non-free parts
inside it so, one al
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On 11/28/2017 03:23 PM, Jann KRUSE wrote:
> In short:
> We are essentially being forced, without even being told, to run buggy
> proprietary code in a very powerful and very capable hyper-hyper-visor
> of our OS, which can (benign or maliciously) contr
On 24 November 2017 18:19:23 EET, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote:
>[...]
>
>2. between the "user facing OS" and the hardware there are at least 2 ½
>OS kernels (MINIX and UEFI)
>3. these are proprietary and very likely exploit-friendly
Update: Have been exploited...
(And you wouldn't even realize it!)