Yes, because clearly if a bunch of people start using Jolla or Firefox OS surveillance will magically stop happening on the shared public wireless networks we are all communicating over via an open and largely unencrypted internet connection.
Open source is nice, but it doesn't solve anything in terms of government or corporate spy groups snooping. The cat is out of the bag on that one and I don't think they're going to magically stop spending billion or trillions snooping anytime soon. Google/facebook/twitter/microsoft make billions off of spying on customer behavior and serving them ads. Governments have a vested interest in either citizen safety or maintaining power by trying to control the population.
In either case, there is just too much money and power for spying to ever go away or become less sophisticated.
>Yes, because clearly if a bunch of people start using Jolla or Firefox OS surveillance will magically stop happening on the shared public wireless networks we are all communicating over via an open and largely unencrypted internet connection.
That's internet and wireless surveillance. That's a lot less than the direct access to the phone that closed source OSs may provide.
> via an open and largely unencrypted internet connection.
Doesn't have to be that way, you know. You can use VPN, SSH, OTR or any other way to secure your communications, if the endpoints can be trusted at least to some extent.
Open source is nice, but it doesn't solve anything in terms of government or corporate spy groups snooping. The cat is out of the bag on that one and I don't think they're going to magically stop spending billion or trillions snooping anytime soon. Google/facebook/twitter/microsoft make billions off of spying on customer behavior and serving them ads. Governments have a vested interest in either citizen safety or maintaining power by trying to control the population.
In either case, there is just too much money and power for spying to ever go away or become less sophisticated.