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On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 10:50:35 -0700 |
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Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I use Chrome. How do I know Chrome isn't scanning my local drives |
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> and sending stuff somewhere? I don't. |
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It wouldn't have to scan your local drives. It would only have |
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to scan the very few directories named "MY DOCUMENTS" and |
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"MY VIDEOS" and "MY EMAIL" which have conveniently been established |
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by the omnipotent and omniscient desktop environment. Within |
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these universal and standardized storage areas can be found |
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everything that snooping software would need to find. |
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I am only being partly facetious. This does represent the trend. |
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We have standardized locations that are shared across many different |
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programs. But the programs aren't really different because they |
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are produced by the same desktop conglomerate or because they |
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must employ the toolkits and widgets of said conglomerate. |
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The job of the NSA is getting easier. Those terrorist documents |
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will no longer be buried within terabytes of disjoint hard drive |
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space. They will all be nicely tucked into an "ALL DOCUMENTS ARE HERE" |
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standardized directory that nobody had better modify because |
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the entire system will crash. |
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