From 7485a2bd4328d61c600ab54f2609df35c01def14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bob Mottram Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 23:45:53 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 'Tasking' of engineers --- beaglebone.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/beaglebone.txt b/beaglebone.txt index ae938e8f..b89b1407 100644 --- a/beaglebone.txt +++ b/beaglebone.txt @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ In these instructions only a minimal level of familiarity with Linux is assumed. ** Why should I do this? You should consider doing this if you are a freedom-oriented sort of person and you want to maintain sovereignty over your information. Laws in many places in the world consider you to have relinquished any property rights over data which you put onto a server not owned by youself (i.e. owned by a third party, such as Google or Facebook). -If you don't like the idea of having all your communications intercepted and investigated by the Surveillance State then you should consider running a FreedomBone. If your profession involves maintaining confidentiality as an essential feature, such as legal or medical services, counselling, teaching or any sort of activism then you should consider running a FreedomBone. +If you don't like the idea of having all your communications intercepted and investigated by the Surveillance State then you should consider running a FreedomBone. If your profession involves maintaining confidentiality as an essential feature, such as legal or medical services, counselling, teaching or any sort of activism then you should consider running a FreedomBone. Especially if your activities include [[https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/03/20/inside-nsa-secret-efforts-hunt-hack-system-administrators/][systems administration]] or [[http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/gchq-and-nsa-targeted-private-german-companies-a-961444.html][software engineering for any communications-related systems]] then it is highly likely that you have already been targeted and "tasked" by the surveillance apparatus. As Eben Moglen noted in his now famous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOEMv0S8AcA]["Freedom in The Cloud"]] talk the simple fact of you keeping your own internet logs (found in the /var/log directory) puts a certain amount of power in your hands and takes it away from parties who would otherwise sell that information without your knowledge or permission to advertisers or other shady outfits who may not have your best interests at heart. ** After it's installed will it need a lot of maintenance?