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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. (fedia.io)

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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:

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

tcpdump and mitmproxy go wild when starting the program.

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

You might feel I'm nitpicking about a possible edge case.

But you are promised privacy, and without going through every screen in the options menu, sniffing the network traffic, or going through the source code you have no idea that your note titles are being sent to Google Analytics.

It's another example of a company (they sell premium services) using "privacy-first" as a buzzword instead of living by it as a guiding principle.

At least there is an opt-out, I guess.