Liberated systemd: A Fork Removing Surveillance Enablement Features
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Summary
This article describes a fork of systemd called 'Liberated systemd' that removes surveillance enablement features from the original systemd software. The project aims to eliminate tools that facilitate collection of personal information not arising from technical needs for systemd functionality. The fork is maintained on GitHub and will be kept up-to-date with changes from the main systemd repository while focusing solely on removing surveillance capabilities.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledMass surveillance is bad, actually.
The purpose of Liberated systemd is to do exactly one thing, and do it well: removing surveillance enablement from base systemd.
surveillance is the tooling that enables or facilitates collection of any personal information that does not arise from technical needs for systemd.
Liberated systemd -- no surveillance. Ever.
However you use this, or do not, is your choice and yours alone.
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