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-<title>A wise user judges each Internet usage scenario carefully - GNU
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+<title>A Wise User Judges Each Internet Usage Scenario Carefully - GNU
Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
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-<h2>A wise user judges each Internet usage scenario carefully</h2>
-<p>by Richard Stallman<br />First published in <a
-href="https://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/a-wise-user-judges-each-internet-usage-scenario-carefully/">The European
-Business Review</a></p>
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+<div class="article reduced-width">
+<h2>A Wise User Judges Each Internet Usage Scenario Carefully</h2>
+
+<address class="byline">by Richard Stallman</address>
<p>Businesses now offer computing users tempting opportunities to
let others keep their data and do their computing. In other words,
to toss caution and responsibility to the winds.</p>
<p>These businesses, and their boosters, like to call these computing
-practices &ldquo;cloud computing&rdquo;. They apply the same term
+practices &ldquo;cloud computing.&rdquo; They apply the same term
to other quite different scenarios as well, such as renting a remote
server, making the term so broad and nebulous that nothing meaningful
can be said with it. If it has any meaning, it can only be a certain
@@ -40,12 +46,12 @@ are depends on what kind of data is involved.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that a US company (or a subsidiary of one) is required
to hand over nearly all data it has about a user on request of the
-FBI, without a court order, under &ldquo;USA PATRIOT Act&rdquo;,
+FBI, without a court order, under &ldquo;USA PATRIOT Act,&rdquo;
whose blackwhiting name is as orwellian as its provisions. We know
that although the requirements this law places on the FBI are very
loose, the FBI systematically violates them. Senator Wyden says
that if he could publicly say how the FBI stretches the law, <a
-href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/secret-patriot-act/">the
+href="https://www.wired.com/2011/05/secret-patriot-act/">the
public would be angry at it</a>. European organizations might well
violate their countries' data protection laws if they entrust data
to such companies.</p>
@@ -57,7 +63,7 @@ proprietary software (not free/libre).</p>
<p>With software, there are two possibilities: either the users control
the software or the software controls the users. The first case we
-call &ldquo;free software&rdquo;, free as in freedom, because the users
+call &ldquo;free software,&rdquo; free as in freedom, because the users
have effective control of the software if they have certain essential
freedoms. We also call it &ldquo;free/libre&rdquo; to emphasize that
this is a <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">question of freedom, not
@@ -73,7 +79,7 @@ this product shackles the user.</p>
<p>When a service does the user's computing, the user loses control
over that computing. We call this practice &ldquo;Software as
-a Service&rdquo; or &ldquo;SaaS&rdquo;, and it is equivalent to
+a Service&rdquo; or &ldquo;SaaS,&rdquo; and it is equivalent to
running a proprietary program with a spy feature and a back door. <a
href="/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html">It is
definitely to be avoided.</a></p>
@@ -101,8 +107,8 @@ upload, and decrypted on the user's machine after it is accessed.</p>
<p>In the specific case of iCloud, all the users will be running Apple
software, so Apple will have total control over their data anyway. A
spy feature was discovered in the iPhone and iPad software early in
-2011, leading people to speak of the &ldquo;spyPhone&rdquo;. Apple
-could introduce another spy feature in the next &ldquo;upgrade&rdquo;,
+2011, leading people to speak of the &ldquo;spyPhone.&rdquo; Apple
+could introduce another spy feature in the next &ldquo;upgrade,&rdquo;
and only Apple would know. If you're foolish enough to use an iPhone
or iPad, maybe iCloud won't make things any worse, but that is no
recommendation.</p>
@@ -165,9 +171,17 @@ set of issues, and they need to be judged based on the specifics.
Vague statements, such as any statement formulated in terms of
&ldquo;cloud computing,&rdquo; can only get in the way.</p>
+<div class="infobox extra" role="complementary">
+<hr />
+<p>First published in <a
+href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201126031912/https://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/a-wise-user-judges-each-internet-usage-scenario-carefully/">
+<cite>The European Business Review</cite></a>.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
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<p>Please send general FSF &amp; GNU inquiries to
@@ -185,13 +199,13 @@ to <a href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org">&lt;webmasters@gnu.org&gt;</a>.</p>
to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org">
&lt;web-translators@gnu.org&gt;</a>.</p>
- <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of
+ <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of
our web pages, see <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
README</a>. -->
Please see the <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
-README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations
of this article.</p>
</div>
@@ -212,7 +226,7 @@ of this article.</p>
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright &copy; 2011, 2019 Richard Stallman</p>
+<p>Copyright &copy; 2011, 2022 Richard Stallman</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative
@@ -222,10 +236,10 @@ Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
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-$Date: 2019/12/30 11:28:30 $
+$Date: 2022/04/17 09:26:47 $
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