[TriLUG] Hit me with your best shot

[Ken MacKenzie]

Well let me ask what you mean by not spied before I go any deeper.  I mean
do you mean no connection to IRL identities or are you talking complete
masking of activity, or activity in relation to a location?  There are
various levels of what people consider anonymous when it comes to the
internet.

As for things I check.  There is an option at setup, and it can be found
later in settings to send browsing and bug report data to google for the
sake product improvement.  I opted to uncheck those.  If you are in
chromeos though every thing that is a google app, I am sure they collect
something.  But the same could be said for many OSs.

As for how open it is to changing things, well that is what dev mode is
for.  Numerous web sites out there about dual booting as well as completely
replacing chrome os in favor of linux only.

Ken


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Sean Alexandre <sean at alexan.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 02:16:06PM -0400, Ken MacKenzie wrote:
> > If you use the internet they got you...
>
> Mine challenge was: "Not be spied on by Google."
>
> This is a new and different challenge: "Not be spied on by _them_."
>
> It's an interesting challenge too, but, I agree, much harder. I'm really
> just interested in the former to start.
>
> Chromebooks look nice and the techie in me wants one, but I'd want to know
> how much work it would be to "not be spied on by Google."
>
> Are there terms of use that come with the purchase and if there are do they
> allow rooting the device?
>
> How easy is it wipe ChromeOS and install another distro?
>
> Does Google have an official statement on all this that would make me feel
> like
> they're open to this and haven't done something lower level, in hardware,
> to
> spy on me?
>
> My gut sense is just using Crouton isn't enough, but I don't know.
>
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