On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 08:05:31 -0700, Mark F wrote: >On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 5:05 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> In short, Jane Doe wants Google [...] *doesn't care* if some >> software she installed phones home or not. > >Does she even know?
She doesn't, or at best she heard about it on television and ignores it, or follows idiotic hints given by "experts" on television. >I think this is an education challenge. Yes, we needed to learn how to use forks and knives, to drive a car and things like this and much more important, we needed to learn not to trust the stranger who gives away candies at the children's playground. People don't understand how important it is to learn how to use a multi-tool and that strangers who give away candies in the Internet could be the same people who give away candies at the children's playground. Thinking barriers! We are living in an age were people visit a weekend healer class and after that they guess they know more about "true" healing, than somebody who studied medicine at an university. >I still wish there were post-install configurations to choose from. >I've never understood the all-or-nothing approach to these matters. I installed Ubuntu from the sever image and disabled all package bundles, let alone that my Arch Linux by default is an install without everything and that Arch's policy is the opposite of Ubuntu's policy in regards to auto-starts. Ubuntu auto-starts everything that could be auto-started by default, even when installing from the server image without even installing X. However, there is already choice, more or less all distros provide some kind of expert install. Either be an expert/power user or an averaged user, everything in between is risky. You can not simply chose to install the "more privacy" meta-package, you need to maintain "more privacy" with knowledge. You need to become self-responsible, learning and maintenance of the install never stops. In regards to security it's the same. First of all, after downloading the Ubuntu or Ubuntu flavour image, the user needs to check the ISO against the PGP signed checksums. When Ubuntu is installed, it's not only important to upgrade, a user also needs to audit https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/ , resp. http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/ at least once a day and the user needs to have the skills to understand what to do or not to do. Regards, Ralf -- Marge Simpson: We used to call ourselves the Cool Moms. Bart Simpson: There is nothing cooler than calling yourself cool. -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
