On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 13:25:28 -0400 (EDT) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: <snip>
| That way the control is what I chose and the information I share is my own | security/privacy trade-off.
+1
All systems other than Linux and other open source OSes (BSD, FreeDOS...) seem to have migrated to oversharing. And even on Linux, some important applications programs seem to be headed that way (Firefox?).
with the advent of strong encryption it is in the best interests of multinationals and governments (+1% and Capital) that there are other ways of obtaining data. it would be trivial for the same players to make every person in the world 100% secure and private, if that was the objective. to social media & multinationals, people are now the products and the products must add, share and create new products. There are different rules, different goals and privacy has no future as people are similar to chickens in a mass scale chicken factory. The chickens are poor dumb creatures that simply exists to be eaten, completely ignorant of the full and final purpose of their meaningless existence. my additional 5c Andre