https://labs.parabola.nu/https://labs.parabola.nu/favicon.ico?15367742552020-02-07T15:19:53ZParabola Issue TrackerPackages - Privacy Issue #2624: Re-evaluate packages in nonprism with unkown problemshttps://labs.parabola.nu/issues/2624?journal_id=137942020-02-07T15:19:53Ztheova
<ul><li><strong>Parent task</strong> changed from <i>#2619</i> to <i>#2626</i></li></ul> Packages - Privacy Issue #2624: Re-evaluate packages in nonprism with unkown problemshttps://labs.parabola.nu/issues/2624?journal_id=138052020-02-09T02:09:23Zfreemor
<ul></ul><p>Ones like this are probably related to those things being seen as being part of the PRISM (NSA) mass surveillance program.</p>
<p>As I mentioned in my first post about refactoring nonprism, protecting people from such a program is well outside the scope of our abilities and fall much more along the personal responsibility / User has to be willing to make huge changes to the way they use the Internet side of things.</p>
<p>But the Snowden leaks showed that most of the major Tech companies are part of the PRISM program. But then CloudFlare probably is too, and then there is "DownStreaming" , etc. So blocking such things would probably just lead people to a false sense of security because of flawed thinking such as "Well it's not blocked so it must be safe..." etc.</p>