🚀 go-pugleaf

Kristian M Zoerhoff <kmz@lavabit.com> wrote:
> 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.

It's always firefox assholes bitching and moaning about how computers are 
too hard and everything is broken.

IE works fine for everything I do, and it's not sending my registry back 
to google or apple every 30 seconds, or using all 31 bits of memory it can 
address before crashing like acrobat reader.