20190426-v_for_vendetta.txt
I was reading some phlogs about the growing dependence of the Web on G
products, particularly content delivery networks (CDNs) and GMaps.
Afterwards I went into my few webpages and downloaded the TTF fonts I
used and changed the page to use local files instead of G's CDNs. It's
a bit more troublesome than copy/pasting the G css embed code.
Yargo's [0]post on a big tech app needlessly invading a work setting
reminded me of a recent issue I had trying to clean my girlfriend's
phone: it had MaaS360 on it from a job from 2 years ago. This idiotic
app had Device Manager permissions, meaning it is basically an "owner"
level permissions. I get when dealing with customer financial data the
need to be secure, but come the F on. I tried for about half an hour
trying to get rid of this POS. The only way to remove it, I found, is
to open the app, log in (she no longer has the credentials), and
manually turn off mobile device management (MDM). Yeah, tough to do
that when you can't log in. I thought about resetting the phone but 1)
she had stuff she didn't want to lose on it and 2) it occurred to me
that MaaS360 probably would remain after a factory reset given its
permissions.
Oh, yeah, the title: So I have been rewatching V for Vendetta lately,
and it just reminded me of all the pervasiveness of big tech companies
on the Web: easy to adopt, difficult to escape, and no concern for the
privacy of users/citizens. I'm thinking I need to add some of the
lines to my quotes.txt. Fun fact that I had forgotten: V for Vendetta
is a DC Comics movie.
P.S. Sorry for potentially "talking down" with the explicit acronym
definitions, but it's annoying for me to have to go to Urban
Dictionary just to figure out some shorthand. I had to look up MDM
myself.
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