On Tuesday 25. July 2017 14.56.55 Erik Albers wrote: > > But still, this is not so special about "social media". It is the internet > in general. And it also effects for example your email-exchange. There is > a disturbing analysis by Benjamin Mako Hill who runs his own email-server > but has to realise that more than 30% of all his emails come from google > and more than 50% go to google [2].
It is true that communications are only secure if the endpoints are also secure. (Worth remembering when people talk about "uncrackable" encryption methods in the media, especially when device exploits exist but rarely mentioned in the same article.) So if the mail all ends up at Google in unencrypted form, then using such services obviously undermines privacy and provides a means of surveillance. What the FSFE should probably be doing is helping people find alternative ways of managing their communications. This should also go beyond advocacy and actually cover the concrete steps people would need to take to adopt such alternatives. And upon realising that it can seem like an intimidating project for people not versed in technology, it should also involve facilitating projects that seek to reduce the complexity involved. [...] > Should we, however, take down our web-page for saving users from being > tracked by third-parties (e.g. via their cookies) while they are browsing > our web-pages? Are the FSFE Web pages serving up tracking cookies? Paul _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
