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Is Your OS Spying On You?

Posted by gsh on · 3 comments
OSWeekly.com; By Brandon Watts
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Paranoia is becoming more common these days, and if you let yourself be engulfed by it, there's definitely not a shortage of things to be concerned about. We know that the governments have the technology to monitor our lives (wiretapping, satellites, other stuff we have no earthly idea about), but regular users are also using certain tools to invade our privacy.

[Hmmm... all that secret code. Wonder what else they're keeping secret? Never mind that, just replace your non-free OS with a libre OS, and you won't have to worry near as much about whether your software vendor is spying on you. - dcparris]

Most people just don't like the idea that Big Brother is watching them wherever they go, and that Big Brother can be anything from one or all of the multiple levels of government, a next door neighbor, or even your actual big brother. Don't you know by now that you always have to watch out for Tim?

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Comments (3)

If you switch to Linux or BSD and you start to miss being spied on, I volunteer to help you out.

I'd be willing to cut a copy of a PCLOS Live-cd that will include a few cron jobs that will regularly send screen shots of what you are dong to some central server.

I would call it Spywarix

Then, if I can get the funding for the server, I'll display everyone's screenshots on a blog.

I can see the marketing pitch now...

Its like reality TV meets BLOGS. We can pitch the Idea to the media and have people vote for their favorite Spywarix user.

The losers would have their OS de-activated until one was left standing.

I think this will sell on Madison Avenue, or at least to the studios in burbank.
There is something like that already, I remember seeing it on the Newswire.
Quoting:I would call it Spywarix


*cough*Linspyer*cough*

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