Re: "Enclosed shops" Re: HTML5 and DRM - A Middle Path?

Everybody knows Microsoft Windows keeps at least a backdoor and
malware just out of the box. Mac OS X, being a far better OS... is
crippled by Apple's short vision of user freedom. So definitely the
best decision is to rely on GNU/Linux.

2013/8/20 Rick <graham.rick@gmail.com>:
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> From: Rick <graham.rick@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 8:11 AM
> Subject: Re: "Enclosed shops" Re: HTML5 and DRM - A Middle Path?
> To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
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> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 7:25 PM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:
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>> On Aug 19, 2013, at 12:32 , Norbert Bollow <nb@bollow.ch> wrote:
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>> > (1) People who are non-US persons must, if they want to deny the NSA
>> >    the ability to watch what they're doing online (without the NSA
>> >    having any need for a warrant, and without any other democratic
>> >    checks and balances), avoid using an operating system which is
>> >    closed source software that comes from a US company.
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>> I don't think (I don't know, of course) that the NSA relied on any
>> 'probes' or the like in the client computers.  Why bother, when you can
>> watch their traffic, much more easily, by having probes in important
>> high-traffic internet links?  I certainly don't think that any monitoring
>> software on the client side, if it existed at all, would rely on any DRM or
>> the like.  Again, why bother?
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>> I think you are under a dangerous illusion if you think using only free
>> software on your computer makes you immune from, or even at reduced risk
>> from, being monitored.
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> No one thinks that.
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> No one said that.
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> It seems that if you live in the US, you can get a "Security Letter" that
> you must comply with and discuss with no one or you spend 5 years in jail.
> Do not pass go, do not collect $200.00
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> This tyranny would seem useful in compelling you to do all manner of things
> that you would not normally do, as we have seen.  How many people have been
> creditied with saying that he who trades freedom for security deserves
> neither?   And voila, how true that is.
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> So you can't be trusted.  Even though it's not your fault.
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> Patriotism?  Tyranny?  You decide, but it's broken and you should get it
> fixed.
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> Mean time, while I have all operating systems, I surf on Linux only.
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>> David Singer
>> Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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> "Anything created must necessarily be inferior to the essence of the
> creator."
> -- Claude Shouse (shouse@macomw.ARPA)
> "Einstein's mother must have been one heck of a physicist."
> -- Joseph C. Wang (joe@athena.mit.edu)
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> "Anything created must necessarily be inferior to the essence of the
> creator."
> -- Claude Shouse (shouse@macomw.ARPA)
> "Einstein's mother must have been one heck of a physicist."
> -- Joseph C. Wang (joe@athena.mit.edu)
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