![]() So, possibly pro-Fascism? With the strange bedfellows resulting from of "an-enemy-of-my-enemy" style identity politics these days its kind of difficult to tell what people's political motivations are. (B) Linux Mint, whose lead developer is somewhere between vocally anti-Zionist and vocally anti-Semitic/pro-ISIS. well, that kinda makes them Big Brother, don't it? ![]() The fact that that they are record all the URLs we visit and programs we use, probably feeding them into a giant distributed AI for risk analysis and marketing purposes. So I consider them essentially a nation with their own brand of politics. (A) Ubuntu (which is pro-Microsoft, and has some separate privacy issues too.) Note that Microsoft's yearly revenue is almost exactly equivalent to the combined GDP of the poorest 50/200 countries on this planet. The only other distributions that make political statements that could cost them many users are Not only is it a great distribution- but it is anti-Fascist and proud- the MX and anti-X communities intermingle from what I hear. The fact that it is either the most popular linux or the fastest growing in popularity (I forget which one) makes me proud of my fellow FOSSils around the world. Update 7/24/19: Microsoft responded with the following statement: That practice will only end if and when Microsoft decides to start hashing the URLs, which probably would require significant code changes across many of their products. It does, though, continue to send an unhashed URL. The good news is that the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge no longer sends the SID during a SmartScreen request. The sending of the SID was an odd thing and does not seem to be referenced anywhere in Microsoft's SmartScreen documentation. Chromium-based Microsoft Edge no longer sends SID In a world where people are finally waking up to how little control they have over their data and how it is being used, this tradeoff may be worth it to put customers at ease. ![]() value of a threat model in which you don't trust the people who wrote the code you're running. Which is fine, but it's a tradeoff, data freshness and transfer size, vs. The alternative approach is to do what SafeBrowsing does, which is push the hash list to the client. ![]() While they are not doing anything sneaky, Microsoft can modify how URLs are sent so that they are hashed in a similar way that Chrome SafeBrowsing does it. ![]()
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