Re: What about all of the data the OS stores about us?

Gregory Weston wrote:
In article <270420071024111782%geefive@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
geefive <geefive@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I guess it because this is the information age and do we really know
what Apple or other companies gets from our 'puters when we go to their
servers?

We do if we keep an eye on what's going (or trying to go) through the communication interfaces in our machines, and enough of "us" do that when some vendor tries to gather information silently we hear about it fairly quickly.

You've guessed wrong, in this case.

What's really striking in this all-too-common interchange is that the
original poster knows almost nothing about the technology involved,
but for some reason *assumes* that everyone else is at least as
technically inept and uninformed as he is.

Rather than ask "Should I be concerned?" he assumes that he is the
only one clever enough to have *ever* considered the idea that
computers might compromise privacy, and because he is not technically
adept enough to verify this for himself, neither is anyone else.

The greater the ignorance, the greater the paranoia and unwillingness
to accept the word of those who know better.

"Phantasy", anyone?



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