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Ok. Totalitarian regime - there’s more than a few already - fake the telemetry domain name certificates and snoop on all your activities. Coupled to other humin
by eecc 8y ago
Ok. Totalitarian regime - there’s more than a few already - fake the telemetry domain name certificates and snoop on all your activities. Coupled to other humint they can easily trace a profile of all your whereabouts, habits, projects and relations both online and IRL. Then one day you disappear.
- naikrovek 8y agoThat's a hell of a leap. One day you're contributing to open source and the next day you're dead because of telemetry? Give me a fucking break. Oh, I forgot, OSS contributors are vital state resources targeted by foreign governments and drug gangs alike, and both of them have access to how you use open source Winforms. I get it, now. (Sarcasm complete. My points here are that you aren't a target of any totalitarian regime, and that totalitarian regimes don't need telemetry to make you disappear.)
- eecc 8y agoHmm, you may have heard that the USA used mobile network telemetry data to drop missiles on top of people's heads.
- naikrovek 8y agoSorry, I forgot I was on the internet. I should have said "usage telemetry." I forgot that being on the internet means that people can't really follow unless everything is spelled out precisely. It doesn't matter that the whole conversation was about usage telemetry, it needs to be specified. Are you switching the conversation topic from open source software telemetry to mobile phone tracking? That's a whole other thing, and doesn't contribute to the in-progress discussion on open source software telemetry, nor does it prove me (or anyone else) wrong.
- eecc 8y agoI’m sorry but how do the two differ? Specifically regarding the potential of privacy intrusion, identity fingerprinting and localization?