🚀 go-pugleaf

On 2012-10-02 11:00, Cydrome Leader wrote:
> Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:
>> In article presence@MUNGEpanix.com says...
>>>> Since no one posts here I thought I'd try and add something interesting.  
>>>> I put my PC on a quiet subnet to check on something and noticed google 
>>>> updates was phoning home every single minute using http with a rather 
>>>> lengthy session.  This chatter was filling up my logs so I investigated 
>>>
>>> snooping on you no doubt.
>>>
>>> don't trust google.
>>
>> I try to keep the snooping to a minimum but realize being snooped upon 
>> is one of the costs of using the tubes.  I like running a clean PC -- no 
>> useless running process, no bullshit traffic.  A clean PC is a secure 
>> PC.  Windows is very chatty on the LAN and pretty god damned stupid 
>> about it.  There's a good reason why Windows users get hacked on 
>> unsecured networks -- they broadcast all kinds of useless bullshit so 
>> the bad guys don't even need a scanner to ID them as a target.
>>
>> I almost have my laptop completely silent.  I still have some IGMP and 
>> LLMNR traffic to that multi-cast address that I can't stop because 
>> apparently I'm using the el cheapo Home version of Windows 7 so I can't 
>> make the necessary registry changes.  Fucking greedy Windows 
>> motherfuckers.  Firefox keeps phoning home for update info even after I 
>> turned that off in the options.  I'm not so concerned about that but 
>> don't understand why they can't just phone home once when the browser 
>> starts and be done with it.
> 
> just use IE and stop dicking around.

You might as well fuck a syphilitic hooker sans condom. IE is
first-class garbage, and a giant pulsing sphincter of a security hole.

> other browsers are junk.

Chrome with plugins disabled works fine, and it's even better with
AdBlock+ and DoNotTrack+. Firefox's memory bloat is inexcusable.