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From: |
Richard M. Stallman |
Subject: |
www/philosophy surveillance-vs-democracy.html |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Jan 2014 09:22:35 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Richard M. Stallman <rms> 14/01/20 09:22:35
Modified files:
philosophy : surveillance-vs-democracy.html
Log message:
Clean up previous change.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.14&r2=1.15
Patches:
Index: surveillance-vs-democracy.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html,v
retrieving revision 1.14
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -u -b -r1.14 -r1.15
--- surveillance-vs-democracy.html 19 Jan 2014 05:24:24 -0000 1.14
+++ surveillance-vs-democracy.html 20 Jan 2014 09:22:33 -0000 1.15
@@ -163,26 +163,28 @@
to protect your privacy is you. Don't tell a company such as Facebook
anything about you that you hesitate to publish in a newspaper. Don't
tell a company such as Facebook anything about your friends that they
-might hesitate to publish in a newspaper. Never give any web site
-your entire list of email or phone contacts. Keep your own data;
-don't store your data in a company's “convenient”
-server.</p>
+might not wish to publish in a newspaper. Better yet, don't be one
+of Facebook's useds at all.</p>
-<p>Don't use non-free software since, as well as giving others control
-of your computing, it
-is <a href="/philosophy/proprietary-surveillance.html"> likely to spy
-on you </a>. Don't
-use <a href="/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html">
-service as a software substitute </a>; as well as giving others
-control of your computing, it requires you to deliver all the
-pertinent data to the server. It's safe, however, to entrust a data
-backup to a commercial service, provided you encrypted the data,
+<p>Never give any web site your entire list of email or phone
+contacts. Keep your own data; don't store your data in a company's
+“convenient” server. It's safe, however, to entrust a
+data backup to a commercial service, provided you encrypted the data,
including the file names, with free software on your own computer
before uploading it.</p>
+<p>For privacy's sake, you must avoid non-free software since, as a
+consequence of giving others control of your computing, it
+is <a href="/philosophy/proprietary-surveillance.html"> likely to spy
+on you </a>.
+Avoid <a href="/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html">
+service as a software substitute </a>; as well as giving others
+control of your computing, it requires you to hand over all the
+pertinent data to the server.</p>
+
<p>However, even the most rigorous self-protection is insufficient to
protect your privacy on or from systems that don't belong to you.
-When you communicate with others or move around the city, everyone's
+When we communicate with others or move around the city, our
privacy depends on the practices of society.</p>
<h3>We Must Design Every System for Privacy</h3>
@@ -485,7 +487,7 @@
<p>Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2014/01/19 05:24:24 $
+$Date: 2014/01/20 09:22:33 $
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</p>
</div>