Tag: privacy

  • Why I deleted my Facebook account and that was just the start

    Why I deleted my Facebook account and that was just the start

    Since just about everyone I know is now on Facebook (there are only 2 people I know who refuse to make a Facebook account), there will be a lot of questions why I decided to delete my account. As I posted before, Jonas Jacek’s post Why is Facebook bad? is quite good at summing up…

  • Encrypting e-mails

    Using Thunderbird and Enigmail, it is not too hard to encrypt the mails you send (and decrypt those you receive). There is a quick-start guide at http://enigmail.mozdev.org/documentation/quickstart.php.html to help you get, well, started. So when sending me mails, please feel free to encrypt them using this key: You can also use this key to verify…

  • Taking back control of your data

    I won’t be deleting my Facebook profile for now, but I’m glad I’m on Diaspora and Friendika to. These alternatives to Facebook aren’t there yet in terms of functionality, but it’s good to have distributed, open source alternatives. There are a lot of reasons to find Facebook evil, but the most important to me are…