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Everything about privacy (the confidentiality pillar of security) -- but not restricted to infosec. Offline privacy is also relevant here.

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I'm checking out various "personal knowledge management" tools in a sandbox to see if it be an upgrade my ragtag collection of text file-based notes.

First candidate is #Logseq, supposedly "privacy-first".

How #privacy friendly is something based on Electron (aka Chrome)? Debatable, but then they also do this:

  1. Have "Send usage data" on by default
  2. Start with an example page that embeds a YouTube video, and accepts all cookies

tcpdump and mitmproxy go wild when starting the program.

Shows that the "Send usage data and diagnostics to Logseq" setting is enabled by default.
Shows the services being contacted by Logseq over HTTPS right after starting it for the first time.  Hosts that are being contact: www.youtube.com, googleads.g.doubleclick.net, jnn-pa-googleapis.com, play.google.com, app.posthog.com, o416451.ingest.sentry.io

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] thank you for your very informative thread !

have you heard about https://b3log.org/siyuan/ ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@projetslibres_[email protected] @[email protected] Thanks!

I hadn't heard of it but it looks pretty good. A bit like Anytype with its templates and relations, but with contents just stored as plain files on disk and hopefully with less tracking.

I will give it try tomorrow, thanks :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] I'd just heard about it recently (I'm an Anytype user) and wanted to give it a try also.