"Are Computers Making Society More Unequal?"

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12. EFF Quote: "Luckily, Ubuntu makes it easy to turn this off."

A person doesn't need to use any of the 'cloud' (which is insecure by design) on their PC. Go to the Privacy section and turn it off. Canonical/Ubuntu's role in this is they struck a partnership with Microsoft last year before the Snowden revelations.

And you accused Ubuntu of being some kind of NSA spy tool. As far as anyone knows, it isn't. So why don't you look up some source code and point to where Ubuntu actually does something surreptitious?

As for SELinux (outmoded as it is), its your prerogative to mistrust it, but even Tor was created by a secretive DOD institution. Extremely privacy-minded people place significant trust in Tor. No large government organization operates in a single-minded fashion (or if it does, it won't survive), and anyway it would be weird for free software projects to refuse contributions from government. You might as well treat corporate interests the same way--reject every last scrap of their works--and live in a box made of driftwood and chicken feathers.

What matters here is that the code is open and has stood up to public scrutiny.