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Posted in Free/Libre Software at 10:44 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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http://techrights.org/videos/danger-of-phones.webm
Summary: A longer-than-expected rant about what mobile phones have turned into and a look back at (or listen to) what Richard Stallman (RMS) told me way back in 2013
THE thing many people have dubbed “a phone” isn’t really a phone but an artificially-crippled computer that can — among many other things — make or receive calls.
The video above explain what I use (in 2021) instead of mobile phones. They’re rarely needed, except for few people with very particular occupations that require a lot of travel.
“The recording also mentioned torture whistleblower Craig Murray, who has just been arrested.”While recording this I recalled an old conversation that I had with Richard Stallman (RMS), whom I’ve been in touch with for many years. He has been observing technology for a lot longer than many of us. At around 4 minutes from the start of this old interview with RMS (TechBytes episode 84; very low quality, recorded over landline with a microphone next to it; direct download as Ogg; 00:14:31 in total duration; 8.2 MB in size) he mentioned FirefoxOS and OpenMoko. Later he also suggested using Replicant, if anything at all. The recording also mentioned torture whistleblower Craig Murray, who has just been arrested. Dark week…
The main point though is, it’s far too difficult to secure any mobile phone from privacy violations and therefore they’re rarely worth the trade-offs. █
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