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On 8 Sep 2013 11:37, "Martijn Grooten" <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Sun, 8 Sep 2013, Philip Hudson wrote:
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>> > Well in terms of social media there IS gnu social, which I will let
>> > Matt lee answer questions on,
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>> And Diaspora: http://joindiaspora.com
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> Much as I like initiatives like these, I find the whole idea of secure social media (this thread started about the NSA) a bit of a contradiction.
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> Once you share information with other people, whatever happens to that information is beyond your control. So unless you've gone through an extreme vetting process with your contacts (which takes the 'social' out of social media), you shouldn't share it there.
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> Sure, one would expect social media not to make your information accessible through third parties (neither by design, nor by accident), but frankly, the big sites tend do a pretty good job when it comes to that.
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> (I'm not saying there aren't good arguments for using Diaspora rather than Facebook. There are. But if you're worried about the NSA, the police or even your employer reading your information, you shouldn't put it on there in the first place.)
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> Martijn.
"Be guarded about what you share, but that which you do, share with reckless abandon" -Grant Phillips-Sewell, 2013
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