>>43
I'm not quite an rms-level nutjob
What do you have against RMS' positions (not him as a toejam-munching individual)?
how do you deal with all of this?
If your friends have a few hours to waste, then you may do a short presentation on your computing habits and choices.
- Give a few examples of abuses of power by ``nice and democratic'' governments and their security agencies, then use that to ``prove'' the need for the right to privacy.
- Give a few examples of abuses of power by corporations in the field of software.
- Explain how a string of bytes shorter than this phrase can compromise the security of a computer, then use that to ``prove'' the inherent unsafety of closed-source software.
- Explain how privacy in the digital world is impossible without computer security.