Indeed, using any software makes you used to it, and dependent on it up
to whatever extent you use it. With free software, you know that you
have control over the software. You can rely on the community to do most
of the job, and do for yourself what they won't do or you would do
better (and contribute that to upstream). With proprietary software, you
are making yourself dependent and handing the control of a part of your
life (computing) to a company that only cares for profit; that's not
security.
Also, most proprietary software is distributed without source. That
precludes a real security audit, incentives the developer to be sloppy
about security and to intentionally build anti-features into the
software that work for his own interests and against those of the user,
since it's unlikely that users will figure about these anti-features.
There are many cases. Just to name one, think of the recent cases of VW
and Lenovo with Superfish.
is google earth safe to install?
You want to hear "yes, I have been using it for years with no incident",
but that doesn't means it's secure. With the internals of the system
hidden from you, you will never be able to trust it.
El 10/10/15 a las 16:31, Timothy Hobbs escribió:
You could try running google-earth in subuser.org . But I don't
recommend it, because I don't recommend using any non-free software ;).
Tim
On 10/10/15 23:29, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote:
On Sat, October 10, 2015 3:20 pm, Torsten Rahn wrote:
Thanks, Torsen.
Over the past week I have been running Google Earth on an old machine in
an isolated, but it would be nice to have GE capability without the GE
liability.
I still have Marble installed, so I shall read over the documentation and
give Marble another try.
Regards,
Russell
