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All of this is true, but where is the equivalent attack on Google, whose software is essentially entirely designed to spy on you. Isn't that also Malware? Or
by outside1234 11y ago
All of this is true, but where is the equivalent attack on Google, whose software is essentially entirely designed to spy on you. Isn't that also Malware? Or is this sort of malware ok because it runs the Linux kernel?
I really want to support GNU and FSF but they seem to be constantly fighting some 20 year stale war against a company that is in many ways way more open than Google, Facebook, and Apple.
- bitmapbrother 11y agoWhy don't you point out the spy software on the Android Open Source Project?
- throwaway2048 11y agohow about you point out the phone that runs AOSP without driver blobs/google services blobs.
- Oletros 11y agoWithout any Google blobs any smartphone without Google services. And, as far as I know, binary blobs for bootloader ate not made by Google
- bitmapbrother 11y agoThere are a number of phones that run AOSP without google service blobs. As for running a phone without driver blobs, well that was just a ridiculous question on your part.
- SEJeff 11y agoIn the meantime, the EFF is actually fighting for your freedom and right to not be spied on. Consider donating to them. I switched my monthly donation to the FSF to the EFF instead many years ago as I feel they're doing more to help keep society free than the FSF.
- rando289 11y agoIf you care about software freedom, do donate to fsf. eff leaves that to fsf and they already have 50x more funding. Of course eff also has much broader and less well defined goals of things like "internet freedom."
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- jvalleroy 11y agoHere: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.en.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.en....
- RyanZAG 11y agoI don't think the author is saying 'Microsoft is bad - everyone swap to Google and Apple!'. This is from GNU. The author is saying Microsoft is bad, and since most of these points probably apply to Apple and Google too, the author would probably say that Apple and Google are bad too. Either way it's kind of irrelevant. "He shot my dog!" "Not an issue, other people are shooting dogs all the time." Other people being at fault does not absolve you of fault.
- rando289 11y agoThey didn't post this to hacker news, it's /an/ article on their site thats been there for quite a while, and yes they call out Google elsewhere. For example http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.html. gnu.org != whatever some random user posted on hacker news today. Try thinking a little before posting.
- bitmapbrother 11y agoOne more thing, Microsoft is a hypocrite. Microsoft employed a number of marketing campaigns to smear Google. They even went so far as to hire Mark Penn, a political smear campaign hitman, to carry out their plans. Now that we know all of the nefarious activities Microsoft has been up to and tried to conceal from the press their actions are even more despicable. From breaking into their users accounts and rifling through their documents, giving the NSA full access to Skype, online storage and email and the spyware infected Windows 10 that they're now trying to impose on people unwillingly. As for your question, it's better to attack a hypocrite that claimed to champion privacy when in reality they did just the opposite.
- oldmanjay 11y agoWhat hypocrisy are you referencing? I'm not really questioning the veracity of your list of items, to be clear. I just don't see anything that fits the definition of hypocrisy.
- bitmapbrother 11y agoMicrosoft accused Google of spying on you and invading your privacy in a number of failed PR campaigns. It was then discovered that not only was Microsoft spying on you, but they took it to the next level with their links with the NSA, their invasion of a user's email and storage accounts and the built in spyware embedded into Windows 10.
- threatofrain 11y agoThe hypocrisy is that Microsoft wants us to remember that we're getting Scroogled, but ignore that they are just as bad for privacy. Personally I don't care about hypocrisy; people can flip flop all the time, and maybe it indicates a flexible mind that updates based on new evidence. What bothers me is the dishonest implication that Microsoft is good for privacy, and that the anxiety they wish to arouse for Google shouldn't be placed back on Microsoft.
- bitmapbrother 11y agoLooks like the Microsoft reputation manager dogs were notified.