tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662517.post3843012131023039960..comments2024-02-10T20:49:20.762-05:00Comments on bjkeefe: A reply to Tom Hendersonbjkeefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10967912817595826059noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662517.post-57314870687571051092012-04-03T15:00:12.022-04:002012-04-03T15:00:12.022-04:00'm sooooo glad you've done the homework. Y...'m sooooo glad you've done the homework. Yet you're no more enlightened than you were before.<br /><br />Happy to see you've found my dispute with the Indiana Secretary of State office. Would you talk to them for me, please? I'm not one for shoveling up dirt on you, so don't worry.<br /><br />You believe me to be hysterical regarding Google, but I'm of the opposite stance, actually, and quite pragmatic if orthodox in my choice to dump Google. I don't trust Facebook, Linked-in, etc. I'm well aware of the fact that ITWorld has so many scripts on its page that it's a wonder you can get away alive. I disabled the scripts on my own site; I'd forgotten they were there. You can surf safely there if you'd like now. I'm frankly aghast at how Ghostery has turned up so many trackers. I wonder if Ghostery isn't ratting out my browser history, but I haven't had time to check as of yet.<br /><br />The Google-Free life has been fun. There's still an account for me there, but I've not used it in a while, except to say goodbye to friends and circles of friends. Getting rid of Android has been tougher. It's a work in progress. I've been using a G1 phone to pilot how to successfully rid myself of Android, but I'm tempted just to go to an Ubuntu phone once its infrastructure is finished. I saw a Mozilla phone in early stages, too. Might work.<br /><br />As for the rest of who I am, I am indeed the managing director, and the principal researcher, and sometimes the only employee of ExtremeLabs, Inc. Yes, I'm also the president, the title that the IRS wants. On good days, there are several of us, but today, it's just me. Does that bother you somehow? Did you expect me to be a gargantuan corporation in an office building with big glass windows? I try hard to keep my phone private, so as not to be interrupted by PR people. My address is largely secret so as to avoid people breaking in.<br /><br />But these factoids are probably irrelevant to you. The homework was to understand the EULAs and what they represent. I can control Facebook to an extent. They might breach that control, but I'm unalarmed by this; I believe that Google's control over those users that access Google's resources is huge-- larger than that of Facebook. On Linked-in, all the information of mine is public knowledge and it's used as a business network for my purposes, not that my use is any of your business, just as I care not one whit what you use applications for-- it's your business.<br /><br />Has your need for comeuppance been assuaged? Will you need some more? Seems that politicly we're largely aligned by the description of other protagonisms you list on your blog.Tom Hendersonhttp://www.extremelabs.comnoreply@blogger.com