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otterleytoday at 12:14 AM1 replyview on HN

That link you provided is a "conspiracy theory," even by the author's own admission. That article is also outdated; OCSP is as dead as a doornail (no doubt in part because it could be used for surveillance) and they fixed the cleartext transmission of hardware identifiers.

Are you expecting perfection here? Or are you just being argumentative?


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fsflovertoday at 9:19 AM

> That link you provided is a "conspiracy theory," even by the author's own admission.

"Conspiracy theory" is not the same as a crazy, crackhead theory. See: Endward Snowden.

Full quote from the article:

> Mind you, this is definitionally a conspiracy theory; please don’t let the connotations of that phrase bias you, but please feel free to read this (and everything else on the internet) as critically as you wish.

> and they fixed the cleartext transmission of hardware identifiers

Have you got any links for that?

> Are you expecting perfection here? Or are you just being argumentative?

I expect basic things people should expect from a company promoting themselves as respecting privacy. And I don't expect them to be much worse than GNU/Linux in that respect (but they definitely are).