| If the world ever gets bad enough that I have to hide from Google and TPTB, your customized system will probably be contraband. In which case, I wouldn't want something like that, because I... don't want to go to jail, and I am rather certain they could find out if they wanted to. Probably by machine learning looking for houses with an absence of pings to certain servers and using old fashioned police work from there. Keeping that scenario from ever happening is a political issue. Perhaps it is in part technical too, but ultimately, people should not have to live like fugitives. For the same reason they shouldn't have to wear a guy fawkes mask in public. And if someone does need to, they probably don't consider themselves to be free. I may have never tried to get away from Google, but we did grow up poor enough to not have the latest tech for quite a long time. It would be nice if it was possible and convenient, but a lot of things are still way behind. When you add up all the details... it's probably more of a luxury than being rich in the gilded age, and it's accessible even to people like me who don't even make minimum wage when you take into account all the Ubers and Lyfts and crap. With simple technology, one mistake and it's all gone. It doesn't help you out at all. Remember how this stuff was done 15 years ago? Nobody ever would trust computers for anything important. We all used pens and paper every day. Every person I know who cares about privacy seems to need tons more analog tech than I do. Lose your phone? Too bad, there was no Google page with which to track it and remote control it. Lose your wallet? Hope someone turns it in. There was no Tile. Cooking and need to set a timer? Better wash your hands first and be careful not to forget in the time it takes to do so, or you'll make a mess and transfer germs when you touch the timer. It would be a LOT of work to set up replacements for all of this while preserving privacy. These things are only a few minutes per day, but collectively they are a big lifestyle change. Eventually, open source will catch up. But it is slowed down by the fact that the FOSS community.... likes to shit on such things and doesn't want them to exist at all, and prefers ongoing manual involvement, and shits on most zero conf stuff, because they're so absolutist about security and minimalism. |