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If you pay for and carry around a spy machine, you should expect it to spy on you. If you run non-free software on a computer (even if someone tricks you into c

If you pay for and carry around a spy machine, you should expect it to spy on you. If you run non-free software on a computer (even if someone tricks you into calling it a "telephone") that is constantly online talking to its spymaster, you cannot be surprised that it spies on you. Solution: Stop feeding the beast. Stop giving these fools your money, paying them to hurt you. Stop carrying and using a computer whose only purpose is hurting you. Stallman is right.

danuker 4y ago
A "smartphone" does offer some convenience. But it comes bundled with apps serving the suppliers through nagware and eventually users' addiction.
- fsflover 4y ago
  Unless it's a smartphone running exclusively free software (Librem 5 or Pinephone).
  - rurban 4y ago
    Still runs spyware baseband and backdoored CPU's.
    - fsflover 4y ago
      Baseband is separated by the USB and has no control over the system. Also, can be killed by a hardware kill switch. How is ARM CPU Cortex-A53 backdoored?
mdp2021 4y ago
The article is about side effects of wireless technologies ("if you make noise I can hear you"). It is not about the misappropriation of information stored in IT systems.