My rule: no cloud service dependent devices >$50.
Exceptions are companies like Apple and maybe Microsoft that are capable of supporting the device for a lifecycle. Obviously Google is out.
Exceptions are companies like Apple and maybe Microsoft that are capable of supporting the device for a lifecycle. Obviously Google is out.
You say you have Apple (and maybe Microsoft) as exception but Microsoft was one of the first to join PRISM program. Apple's in it as well. Apple uses Siri. Do you entrust Apple with your voice data? With your Spotlight searches (or Microsoft, as I saw today that was being used, and I know I never set it up to use Bing cause I don't use Bing)? If you're not from the USA, it'd be stupid to depend on US cloud services ever since the Snowden revelations. Before that as well, but then it was just all theory.
Cloud is sometimes invisible and, well, murky (cloudy) as to . Therein lies a danger. A program like Signal does it right, but that is merely communication. I have no idea what the feasible alternative would be to cloud because something like a mobile phone just isn't powerful enough, and has its own set of privacy and security issues on top of that.
I'm from the USA. I don't have any reason to implement an opsec level that would potentially defeat a government inquiry. If there were a targeted effort to get at my stuff, my home lacks the controls to even offer a moderate level of resistance.
I'm more worried about shelling out money for services the vanish.
Fair enough! How far do you go with this? Open source firmware and the like?
> I'm from the USA. I don't have any reason to implement an opsec level that would potentially defeat a government inquiry. If there were a targeted effort to get at my stuff, my home lacks the controls to even offer a moderate level of resistance.
Oh, I have no issue if the secret service of my country targets someone (including me) specifically. My problem is with mass surveillance, dragnets, and silly attempts to find needles in haystacks. That I would try to avoid, try to not support those by voting with my wallet.
Also, I'd like you to consider the following: it isn't only the secret service or the NSA. The Snowden revelations are just the tip of the iceberg, or the wake up call. There's also the insurance company, the headhunter, data leaks because $cloud_provider can't secure their shit, profiling based on your data, etc.
But I believe that is mostly related to the unending list of services they have stopped. Code, Reader, or even APIs and libraries they stop without a single warning (cough cough angular v1.x).
Seriously, the list is big. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Discontinued_Google_s...
Facebook is eroding that core business, so I expected more belt-tightening in coming years.