I don't think they sold as many as they want you to think. That's why they keep pushing cloud computing so hard to entrap people into a monthly fee when there are FOSS alternatives (LibreOffice, Firefox, GIMP, Inkscape, etc.).
I use Linux as well. Matter of fact, I got a nine year old laptop right now running 32-bit PAE kernel 4.11 with up to date software just fine. It's really sad how businesses really on these companies for communication and don't even realize the privacy concerns workers may have. Also, everything is cloud and AI now, which just places even more dependency. If these companies disappeared tomorrow, economies around the world would collapse. There are FOSS alternatives to everything. I also personally don't need any of these companies for work or play.
DuckDuckGo.com and they don't bubble your searches either. There's nothing worse than showing subjective results and advertisements pertaining to your personality. You can turn cookies off, but they get more intimate with your computer than that; it won't help. No wonder assholes keep getting into office. Facebook is guilty of the same exact thing with their news articles. Anyone feel free to humor me; find a conservative and a liberal and tell them to google the same topic at the same time and see what happens. DuckDuckGo keeps things objective and private. It also doesn't need JavaScript to run and they have a.onion version for Tor users. So, no you don't need Google at all. When in doubt and need an alternative, ask a Linux user.
Though I wouldn't mind riding a sand worm, I do think our technology is evolving faster than our ethics and it is causing a ton of problems most only see when living outside the grip of social Darwinism. I've always seen Facebook as a huge problem, but combine AI with quantum computing and we are all data cattle forced to go to outrageously priced colleges and plunge us all into more debt. Those with an IQ less than 115 won't be able to take full advantage of capitalistic gain unless they know someone.
"My man, Putin buddy ol' pal. I need a favor." Sounds like a load of horse shit to keep people from letting their voices be heard. Kind of ironic really; "denial of service"...wonder what that also sounds like, but legal? -_-
I tried the "Sugar" version of Trisquel and couldn't figure out how to use it, and I also couldn't get wifi to work out-of-the-box. I hate GNOME and Unity. XFCE with a Whisker Menu for easy program search, Catfish for easy or detailed file search, and wmctrl for easy workspace switching; then, add key combos to the keyboard settings. However, the OpenSUSE (Tumbleweed) version of XFCE is much faster than Ubuntu and there are a lot more packages available thanks to SuseStudio. To give you an idea, I made my own Linux distro with SuseStudio based on OpenSUSE 13.2 32-bit before they dropped support. Because of this, I had to create my own upgrade script to fix broken repositories, which isn't really that big of a deal since there are Tumbleweed and Factory versions of the ones I was using. So now, I have a nine year old laptop running 32-bit kernel 4.11 PAE (for more RAM access) and the latest open source software and on my worst day, it might barely graze 2 GB of RAM out of the 4 I have. Start up for me is usually only ~300 MB of RAM on XFCE and ~160, if I remember correctly, when using IceWM. Even just booting up the 3GB ISO I made Live, the DVD only uses ~600 MB of RAM. I don't think Ubuntu anything uses less than that at anytime, even after installation. You can check it out here: https://theouterlinux.com/psyc..., though it doesn't have an easy installer like Ubuntu has. If you want to make your own Linux distro, I highly recommend SuseStudio.
From what I understand, people don't like systemd because it "bogs" down the system with unnecessary (and "non-free") stuff. But in my experience, it's not enough to to loose any sleep over if your system isn't too old and generally makes things runs better. I admire Richard Stallman (an important guy to look up for this issue), but I've tried his Trisquel OS and it is not for the average Linux user; actually, it was hard as hell to use when I tried it a few years ago.
Another way to look at systemd is that it is "open source," but the license (LGPL; Lesser GPL) for it makes it so developers don't have to release a source code and makes it legally impossible to redistribute a personally made Linux distribution using systemd without asking for permission (a free sub-license) from the Linux Foundation and/or possibly what distro you based it off of, and personal experience has shown the LF to be helpful only for first-time applicants (I guess they're busy) and go where the money is, ie. Microsoft has been a member for a few years now, to which is also partnered with Canonical (Ubuntu). Though in all honesty, there are thousands of Linux distributions (distrowatch.com) and I am sure not all of them have permission. They sort of own your work and can pull your license at anytime.
The big problem with systemd is that it creates a dependency for projects, essentially, though inadvertently, having the Linux Foundation monopolizing a UNIX-based system while others would prefer "free as in freedom" from the "Free Software Foundation" (GNU), which doesn't use systemd and the Linux kernel is Linux-libre. Systemd developers also have a bad habit of adding and removing features without letting the general Linux community have a say first, and the problem with developers in most cases is that if it works on their system, it will with everyone else; we don't all have $1000+ machines. And because it uses "non-free" software, it places even more resections on what a developer or just an adept user can do with it.
So, that's how I understand it; I might of got somethings wrong (hope not); anyone feel free to correct me.
Or is it just a bunch of PC gamers and IT guys in a "Window$ is the best" bitch-frenzy like they normally do? I don't play computer games and like ReactOS. It's not an out-of-the-box Linux distro like a lot are used to. If you can't learn to be more proactive in your setups to get things to work, that's you're your own problem.
I've said this too many times, and I really don't know what to write that would be a thoughtful comment. All I know to do for now, and have done for nearly a decade, is use VPN, Tor, and DNSCrypt, and hope that all I've done so far will be enough to mud-up things, at least for a while, for when it gets really bad. The Internet used to be like the U.S. was in its infancy, a self-reliant frontier of sorts, and now we're are all statistics once again to be ruled and manipulated by governments that don't know what they're doing because the banking puppet strings are wrapped around too tight. Every so often, humanity is required to go through a "transcendental" phase in order to prevent catastrophe brought by too much change at once. One of the best ways to have done this is through cultural exchange. Unfortunately, leaders keep deciding to let this transcendence happen after wars or international economic gain. The Internet could provide a safe and anonymous way of doing this, but not anymore. The only reason there hasn't been a major war in while, regardless of the who's in charge right now, is because everyone with a social media account has been conditioned to be compliant. You know how your grandparents react when they have to pay for water? Look at the current generation now.
With words such as "leaked," people should know better. It's a bullshit term used to trick half-wit techies into clicking on an ad while feeling "cool" about it; it's their version of "lit." Amazon or any other company with an ounce of intelligence wouldn't let information of a new product sit on a server to be easily discovered unless it was intentional. Hasn't anyone noticed the "leak" ratio between competing companies? Microsoft "leaks" a laptop and then Amazon just happens to "leak" their new product. Apple will "leak" a new product soon too. Product secrets aren't kept in some magical container with holes to ooze out of. Some pseudo hacker runs a scraper they think they've cleverly made and then just happens to "descover" a new product. Companies know about scrapers and how people like finding "secrets" to tell. It's psychology used to bring free advertising.
The college I went used Windows but even then, they ran it on iMacs. I think they did it so that the IT department could free up their time for internet security (they had military students and homeland security majors there) and because they also took looks at student's computers for fixing if they needed it. You can guess which platform saw the most trouble, and it was a private school too, so the Windows to Mac ratio was a little off.
I have a MacBook 4,1 2008 and I just run Linux on it. Right now it's a distro I made that's using kernel 4.10 and latest software, so I can probably get another 5 years out of it if I wanted; only 5 because it's 32-bit, but I do have the PAE kernel installed for more RAM access if I need it, though with Linux I barely ever get about 2 GB of RAM.
A MacBook doesn't need to be connected to the Internet to work, I get 30 days of standby/suspend/sleep time on battery, and MacBook Pros and Airs already are i5 or i7. They say it's faster, but only because of cloud computing: the destroyer of open source. Also, good luck getting any work done without the internet and enjoy having no control over your software and Window$ spyware. There's also no way you'll be able to install Linux on it either. If I have $999 to blow on a laptop, I'll get a System76 or a Thinkpad off of Amazon. Hell, I might just buy a bunch of Raspberry Pi's and put them together.
Not really soap-boxing as much I'm just tired of the red herrings and ad hominems to keep people distracted and peer pressured on total crap. It seems as though most people are content as long as they have their iPhone and the polar ice doesn't melt. Meanwhile, the world sees people like me as figuratively holding a cardboard sign like a nut job. What's really frustrating is people knowing that their data is being used this way but not care, using phrases such as "I've got nothing to hide" (older generation) or "It's 1984" (millennial hipsters trying to be cultured). Honestly, when Wikileaks released information on how the US government was spying on people's social media and everyone was shocked and outraged, I just wanted smack the closest Facebook user I could find, which sadly isn't that hard.
I bitch and moan about Facebook and AI. After all, I am just a "no social life, crazy" Linux user. You tell people how stupid it is to use anything related to Facebook and that AI is nothing more than a tool to kill encryption and anonymity, and people get angry; I'm sure Slashdot keeps a record of my comments for you to confirm my rantings on this. And not to take credit, for many others have made this point as well. I know Slashdot has a Facebook and there will probably be a bunch of moderating in the next 12 hours. And before the AC's decide to flood the rest of the space with "Leftest and Rightest" mumbo jumbo to distract everyone, or FB releases damage control articles, I do not mind being that asshole at all to say all of us told you so. I hold my cardboard sign proudly.
"Would YOU like to no longer see your data on your account page?" Of course they still keep it and anything up until opting out will continue to be used regardless; it's too late. Anything uploaded to the Internet never completely goes away. Imagine deleting a file from your computer. Unless you wipe that file 30 times with zeros before deleting, some information can still be recovered. That's just your typical computer. Now, picture a company like Google and their data recovery tools, especially when creating files on their platforms (google docs, maps, etc.). Google turns your data into Borg. Better yet, it's figuratively shoved into a pod and uploaded to the Matrix (archives) while it's bots feed (crawl) off it.
Not only is this an impossible guarantee or a means to charge customers more money for (Godfather voice) "protection," but it just provides a red herring to monitor more than just metadata.
You can understand its hardware and write the AI version of Grey's Anatomy, but has that ever made anyone more of an expert on you than yourself? A machine that is self-aware would be no different. We may be able to read it's mind through logging, but there's no debugger for the "why." Besides, AI's founding function was and still continueing underlying mission is to destroy encryption and anonymity. This is why it gains so much funding. Don't believe me, research Alan Turing. Meanwhile, we are told it is to make our lives "easier," more like complacent and never having to think. So maybe not destroy humanity, but the free will you think you'll have will be a farse, if not already since people seem to be content using Google, Facebook, and cloud computing for everything.
WhatsApp is owned by Facebook. It's encryption is a joke when the right people are asked nicely, hence the "using techniques that 'cannot be disclosed for security reasons.' What they mean is they can't tell you how they did it because it would look REALLY bad if people realized how stupid it is to put your faith in a company that specializes in profiling and biometric data collection; https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/g.... If you're using WhatsApp on Google anything (Android, Chrome, etc.), you're in even worse shape because it's Google for Christ's sake. Remember Dirty COW? Google waited until after the election to fix it while every other Linux-based OS did months ahead of them.
But anyway, Facebook also invests huge amounts of money into cloud computing and AI. That combination one day will make all encryption and anonymity useless because we will all be digitally fingerprinted whether you have an account or not, especially if quantum computing advances, and you can assume your government will get a copy, just like they get copies of your DNA when you fall for the "fun and easy" TV advertised "ancestry" services. This "profile" is going to replace social security numbers. If you want real encryption (at least for now), use Signal (similar to Telegram but better) or a Tox client (similar to OpenVPN but for messaging). More importantly, use your brain. Both are free and open source and support text, talk, video, and file sharing. I would never use anything that important that I couldn't look at the code for. If you could look at WhatsApp's source code, I think security researchers would be horrified. And, Facebook gets caught spying on their mobile app all the time, so I don't see how WhatsApp would be any different. And just because a lot of people use it, doesn't make it the best. Matter of fact, that would make more of a target.
Some of the above links are kind of old, but note the ISP one. Legally, your internet service provider in the U.S. can sell your browsing information. Because of this, intelligence agencies can just purchase your data for cheap rather than getting a warrant and paying a government employee to waste their time. I'm mentioning ISP because Facebook has been trying for over a year now to bring the Internet to all kinds of places. They would become an "Internet Service Provider." In any case, if the app has an advertisement, you can be tracked.
The real note to take away from this is to realize data can be created and never destroyed and don't put anything on the internet you don't want found. I wish people would realize privacy settings are a joke; they only protect you from the average person. Anytime you see "convenient" or "secure" for a service, just assume it's complete BS because your government doesn't have the time or resources to actually physically search and seize everyone so they have software for it, contrary to "Martial Law" conspiracies; cloud computing makes it easier.
And since this news regarding terrorism, do you know why it was so hard to find Osama? It's because so far as we know, the most technologically advanced thing he ever personally used was a kidney dialysis machine or the Cold War weapons the U.S. gave him. The wor
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I don't think they sold as many as they want you to think. That's why they keep pushing cloud computing so hard to entrap people into a monthly fee when there are FOSS alternatives (LibreOffice, Firefox, GIMP, Inkscape, etc.).
I use Linux as well. Matter of fact, I got a nine year old laptop right now running 32-bit PAE kernel 4.11 with up to date software just fine. It's really sad how businesses really on these companies for communication and don't even realize the privacy concerns workers may have. Also, everything is cloud and AI now, which just places even more dependency. If these companies disappeared tomorrow, economies around the world would collapse. There are FOSS alternatives to everything. I also personally don't need any of these companies for work or play.
DuckDuckGo.com and they don't bubble your searches either. There's nothing worse than showing subjective results and advertisements pertaining to your personality. You can turn cookies off, but they get more intimate with your computer than that; it won't help. No wonder assholes keep getting into office. Facebook is guilty of the same exact thing with their news articles. Anyone feel free to humor me; find a conservative and a liberal and tell them to google the same topic at the same time and see what happens. DuckDuckGo keeps things objective and private. It also doesn't need JavaScript to run and they have a .onion version for Tor users. So, no you don't need Google at all. When in doubt and need an alternative, ask a Linux user.
Though I wouldn't mind riding a sand worm, I do think our technology is evolving faster than our ethics and it is causing a ton of problems most only see when living outside the grip of social Darwinism. I've always seen Facebook as a huge problem, but combine AI with quantum computing and we are all data cattle forced to go to outrageously priced colleges and plunge us all into more debt. Those with an IQ less than 115 won't be able to take full advantage of capitalistic gain unless they know someone.
"My man, Putin buddy ol' pal. I need a favor." Sounds like a load of horse shit to keep people from letting their voices be heard. Kind of ironic really; "denial of service"...wonder what that also sounds like, but legal? -_-
I tried the "Sugar" version of Trisquel and couldn't figure out how to use it, and I also couldn't get wifi to work out-of-the-box. I hate GNOME and Unity. XFCE with a Whisker Menu for easy program search, Catfish for easy or detailed file search, and wmctrl for easy workspace switching; then, add key combos to the keyboard settings. However, the OpenSUSE (Tumbleweed) version of XFCE is much faster than Ubuntu and there are a lot more packages available thanks to SuseStudio. To give you an idea, I made my own Linux distro with SuseStudio based on OpenSUSE 13.2 32-bit before they dropped support. Because of this, I had to create my own upgrade script to fix broken repositories, which isn't really that big of a deal since there are Tumbleweed and Factory versions of the ones I was using. So now, I have a nine year old laptop running 32-bit kernel 4.11 PAE (for more RAM access) and the latest open source software and on my worst day, it might barely graze 2 GB of RAM out of the 4 I have. Start up for me is usually only ~300 MB of RAM on XFCE and ~160, if I remember correctly, when using IceWM. Even just booting up the 3GB ISO I made Live, the DVD only uses ~600 MB of RAM. I don't think Ubuntu anything uses less than that at anytime, even after installation. You can check it out here: https://theouterlinux.com/psyc..., though it doesn't have an easy installer like Ubuntu has. If you want to make your own Linux distro, I highly recommend SuseStudio.
From what I understand, people don't like systemd because it "bogs" down the system with unnecessary (and "non-free") stuff. But in my experience, it's not enough to to loose any sleep over if your system isn't too old and generally makes things runs better. I admire Richard Stallman (an important guy to look up for this issue), but I've tried his Trisquel OS and it is not for the average Linux user; actually, it was hard as hell to use when I tried it a few years ago.
Another way to look at systemd is that it is "open source," but the license (LGPL; Lesser GPL) for it makes it so developers don't have to release a source code and makes it legally impossible to redistribute a personally made Linux distribution using systemd without asking for permission (a free sub-license) from the Linux Foundation and/or possibly what distro you based it off of, and personal experience has shown the LF to be helpful only for first-time applicants (I guess they're busy) and go where the money is, ie. Microsoft has been a member for a few years now, to which is also partnered with Canonical (Ubuntu). Though in all honesty, there are thousands of Linux distributions (distrowatch.com) and I am sure not all of them have permission. They sort of own your work and can pull your license at anytime.
The big problem with systemd is that it creates a dependency for projects, essentially, though inadvertently, having the Linux Foundation monopolizing a UNIX-based system while others would prefer "free as in freedom" from the "Free Software Foundation" (GNU), which doesn't use systemd and the Linux kernel is Linux-libre. Systemd developers also have a bad habit of adding and removing features without letting the general Linux community have a say first, and the problem with developers in most cases is that if it works on their system, it will with everyone else; we don't all have $1000+ machines. And because it uses "non-free" software, it places even more resections on what a developer or just an adept user can do with it.
So, that's how I understand it; I might of got somethings wrong (hope not); anyone feel free to correct me.
Or is it just a bunch of PC gamers and IT guys in a "Window$ is the best" bitch-frenzy like they normally do? I don't play computer games and like ReactOS. It's not an out-of-the-box Linux distro like a lot are used to. If you can't learn to be more proactive in your setups to get things to work, that's you're your own problem.
Not true. Here's a distro list: https://without-systemd.org/wi...
I've said this too many times, and I really don't know what to write that would be a thoughtful comment. All I know to do for now, and have done for nearly a decade, is use VPN, Tor, and DNSCrypt, and hope that all I've done so far will be enough to mud-up things, at least for a while, for when it gets really bad. The Internet used to be like the U.S. was in its infancy, a self-reliant frontier of sorts, and now we're are all statistics once again to be ruled and manipulated by governments that don't know what they're doing because the banking puppet strings are wrapped around too tight. Every so often, humanity is required to go through a "transcendental" phase in order to prevent catastrophe brought by too much change at once. One of the best ways to have done this is through cultural exchange. Unfortunately, leaders keep deciding to let this transcendence happen after wars or international economic gain. The Internet could provide a safe and anonymous way of doing this, but not anymore. The only reason there hasn't been a major war in while, regardless of the who's in charge right now, is because everyone with a social media account has been conditioned to be compliant. You know how your grandparents react when they have to pay for water? Look at the current generation now.
With words such as "leaked," people should know better. It's a bullshit term used to trick half-wit techies into clicking on an ad while feeling "cool" about it; it's their version of "lit." Amazon or any other company with an ounce of intelligence wouldn't let information of a new product sit on a server to be easily discovered unless it was intentional. Hasn't anyone noticed the "leak" ratio between competing companies? Microsoft "leaks" a laptop and then Amazon just happens to "leak" their new product. Apple will "leak" a new product soon too. Product secrets aren't kept in some magical container with holes to ooze out of. Some pseudo hacker runs a scraper they think they've cleverly made and then just happens to "descover" a new product. Companies know about scrapers and how people like finding "secrets" to tell. It's psychology used to bring free advertising.
Or, are we trying to solve the polar ice melting by drinking it? Get rid of the evidence! Flushing ice cubes down the toilet.
Thats all we ever used in Physics and Blender uses it too, to give you an idea.
The college I went used Windows but even then, they ran it on iMacs. I think they did it so that the IT department could free up their time for internet security (they had military students and homeland security majors there) and because they also took looks at student's computers for fixing if they needed it. You can guess which platform saw the most trouble, and it was a private school too, so the Windows to Mac ratio was a little off.
I have a MacBook 4,1 2008 and I just run Linux on it. Right now it's a distro I made that's using kernel 4.10 and latest software, so I can probably get another 5 years out of it if I wanted; only 5 because it's 32-bit, but I do have the PAE kernel installed for more RAM access if I need it, though with Linux I barely ever get about 2 GB of RAM.
A MacBook doesn't need to be connected to the Internet to work, I get 30 days of standby/suspend/sleep time on battery, and MacBook Pros and Airs already are i5 or i7. They say it's faster, but only because of cloud computing: the destroyer of open source. Also, good luck getting any work done without the internet and enjoy having no control over your software and Window$ spyware. There's also no way you'll be able to install Linux on it either. If I have $999 to blow on a laptop, I'll get a System76 or a Thinkpad off of Amazon. Hell, I might just buy a bunch of Raspberry Pi's and put them together.
I would say that's kind of stupid, but there are plenty of complacent, "nothing to hide" kind of people that don't care about privacy anyway.
Not really soap-boxing as much I'm just tired of the red herrings and ad hominems to keep people distracted and peer pressured on total crap. It seems as though most people are content as long as they have their iPhone and the polar ice doesn't melt. Meanwhile, the world sees people like me as figuratively holding a cardboard sign like a nut job. What's really frustrating is people knowing that their data is being used this way but not care, using phrases such as "I've got nothing to hide" (older generation) or "It's 1984" (millennial hipsters trying to be cultured). Honestly, when Wikileaks released information on how the US government was spying on people's social media and everyone was shocked and outraged, I just wanted smack the closest Facebook user I could find, which sadly isn't that hard.
Then why not just use Signal? It already supports text, talk, and video. Using a privacy app owned by Facebook seems like an oxymoron.
I bitch and moan about Facebook and AI. After all, I am just a "no social life, crazy" Linux user. You tell people how stupid it is to use anything related to Facebook and that AI is nothing more than a tool to kill encryption and anonymity, and people get angry; I'm sure Slashdot keeps a record of my comments for you to confirm my rantings on this. And not to take credit, for many others have made this point as well. I know Slashdot has a Facebook and there will probably be a bunch of moderating in the next 12 hours. And before the AC's decide to flood the rest of the space with "Leftest and Rightest" mumbo jumbo to distract everyone, or FB releases damage control articles, I do not mind being that asshole at all to say all of us told you so. I hold my cardboard sign proudly.
"Would YOU like to no longer see your data on your account page?" Of course they still keep it and anything up until opting out will continue to be used regardless; it's too late. Anything uploaded to the Internet never completely goes away. Imagine deleting a file from your computer. Unless you wipe that file 30 times with zeros before deleting, some information can still be recovered. That's just your typical computer. Now, picture a company like Google and their data recovery tools, especially when creating files on their platforms (google docs, maps, etc.). Google turns your data into Borg. Better yet, it's figuratively shoved into a pod and uploaded to the Matrix (archives) while it's bots feed (crawl) off it.
Not only is this an impossible guarantee or a means to charge customers more money for (Godfather voice) "protection," but it just provides a red herring to monitor more than just metadata.
You can understand its hardware and write the AI version of Grey's Anatomy, but has that ever made anyone more of an expert on you than yourself? A machine that is self-aware would be no different. We may be able to read it's mind through logging, but there's no debugger for the "why." Besides, AI's founding function was and still continueing underlying mission is to destroy encryption and anonymity. This is why it gains so much funding. Don't believe me, research Alan Turing. Meanwhile, we are told it is to make our lives "easier," more like complacent and never having to think. So maybe not destroy humanity, but the free will you think you'll have will be a farse, if not already since people seem to be content using Google, Facebook, and cloud computing for everything.
Would you be comfortable connecting your IoT devices with strangers? Probably not.
WhatsApp is owned by Facebook. It's encryption is a joke when the right people are asked nicely, hence the "using techniques that 'cannot be disclosed for security reasons.' What they mean is they can't tell you how they did it because it would look REALLY bad if people realized how stupid it is to put your faith in a company that specializes in profiling and biometric data collection; https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/g.... If you're using WhatsApp on Google anything (Android, Chrome, etc.), you're in even worse shape because it's Google for Christ's sake. Remember Dirty COW? Google waited until after the election to fix it while every other Linux-based OS did months ahead of them.
But anyway, Facebook also invests huge amounts of money into cloud computing and AI. That combination one day will make all encryption and anonymity useless because we will all be digitally fingerprinted whether you have an account or not, especially if quantum computing advances, and you can assume your government will get a copy, just like they get copies of your DNA when you fall for the "fun and easy" TV advertised "ancestry" services. This "profile" is going to replace social security numbers. If you want real encryption (at least for now), use Signal (similar to Telegram but better) or a Tox client (similar to OpenVPN but for messaging). More importantly, use your brain. Both are free and open source and support text, talk, video, and file sharing. I would never use anything that important that I couldn't look at the code for. If you could look at WhatsApp's source code, I think security researchers would be horrified. And, Facebook gets caught spying on their mobile app all the time, so I don't see how WhatsApp would be any different. And just because a lot of people use it, doesn't make it the best. Matter of fact, that would make more of a target.
Some of the above links are kind of old, but note the ISP one. Legally, your internet service provider in the U.S. can sell your browsing information. Because of this, intelligence agencies can just purchase your data for cheap rather than getting a warrant and paying a government employee to waste their time. I'm mentioning ISP because Facebook has been trying for over a year now to bring the Internet to all kinds of places. They would become an "Internet Service Provider." In any case, if the app has an advertisement, you can be tracked.
The real note to take away from this is to realize data can be created and never destroyed and don't put anything on the internet you don't want found. I wish people would realize privacy settings are a joke; they only protect you from the average person. Anytime you see "convenient" or "secure" for a service, just assume it's complete BS because your government doesn't have the time or resources to actually physically search and seize everyone so they have software for it, contrary to "Martial Law" conspiracies; cloud computing makes it easier.
And since this news regarding terrorism, do you know why it was so hard to find Osama? It's because so far as we know, the most technologically advanced thing he ever personally used was a kidney dialysis machine or the Cold War weapons the U.S. gave him. The wor