Posts by MuckerDog 8 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Oct 2011
I use a vpn on my phone for everything except banking, uses far more juice than anything else but luckily I've a 5500mah battery on mine and I still get 12-15hrs sot between charges.
As for Brave, do they still whitelist the likes of Facebook ? I might give them a try if they aren't still speaking with forked tongue and 'mental reservation'.
Snowden is an exceedingly brave individual and a true hero, and I say that as someone who is generally a very cynical person. What he has revealed is to my mind the most important news in my lifetime (I'm 50+) and far more horrifying and far-reaching than such things as ebola or IS. It shows that my government is far more dangerous than any of those and is descending into a fascist/police state from which it might be very difficult if not impossible to return.
All I can think of is Orwells boot stamping on a face forever, and Nietzsches "Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you." The Fbi director's comments demonstrate straight out that they no longer even care to pretend they are for freedom, and yet the vast majority sit silently and ignorantly by as the water slowly starts to boil around them.
Rectangular, so I pretty much don't care. What I do care about is this one hasn't got Samsung's almost unique (these days) identifier, an sd-slot. I don't have wifi, I travel to places where there is usually no wifi, and I will not be putting any data of mine in the cloud, so that's immediately a no-sale.
"It's hardly going to end up with constant surveillance by the state, particularly because of the EU Human Rights act".
I suggest that if you haven't already done so, you go to the Guardian newspaper website etc, and read up on the NSA section if you think this isn't already here.
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