RMS and Clipperz Promoting Freedom In the Cloud

mbarulli writes "Clipperz and Richard Stallman recently launched a joint call for action to bring freedom and privacy to web applications. 'The benefits of web apps are many, but quite often users lose their freedom to study, modify and discuss the source code that powers those web apps. Furthermore, we are forced to trust third parties with our data (bookmarks, text documents, chat transcripts, financial info ... and now health records!) that no longer resides on our hard disks, but are stored somewhere in the cloud.' Clipperz and RMS urge web developers to adopt the new AGPL license and build their applications using a 'zero-knowledge architecture,' a framework for web services that has been derived from Clipperz online password manager. A smooth path toward web apps based on free software that know nothing about you and your data."

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Re:Froth

[Anonymous Coward]

You know the score

Indeed we do. You scored -1, troll.

And you seem to have a long list of -1 posts. You do know that slashdot post scores are not the same as golf scores, right?

Re:Internet privacy laws are needed.. good luck!

[sm62704]

Good luck in this climate, a week from now our loyal OPPOSITION party here in the us is going to sell our fourth amendment rights down the river

I used to believe we had fourth amendments rights until last summer, when mine were violated twice, once on Memorial Day of all days.

In a plutocracy such as ours, only the rich have rights. You can't lose what you never had.