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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:

  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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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@[email protected] I use the Node.js version of Tiddlywiki and see no such traffic. I don't use TiddlyDesktop, though, so can't comment on that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

@[email protected] This is definitely TiddlyDesktop only. It was added because people were missing the spell checking that their browser normally does (https://github.com/TiddlyWiki/TiddlyDesktop/issues/32)