[liberationtech] Privacy in Ubuntu 12.10

[Niels ten Oever]

Dear Micah,

Small correction to your piece: Selecting full disk encryption in the
installer GUI was already possible in Ubuntu 12.04.

The explanation wasn't as clear as it is now though.

Cheers,

Niels

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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:40:50 -0800
> From: Micah Lee <micahflee at riseup.net>
> To: liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu
> Subject: [liberationtech] Privacy in Ubuntu 12.10
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> Hi, in case people on this list are interested I thought I'd share two
> blog posts about Ubuntu 12.10 on EFF's blog.
>
> Last week I attacked Ubuntu for showing Amazon-affiliated ads to people
> and leaking their search terms without giving users a chance to opt-in:
>
> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-amazon-ads-and-data-leaks
>
> And today I wrote about how Ubuntu 12.10 includes Full Disk Encryption
> options in the GUI installer thanks to user requests, and how this
> relates to the resurgence of crypto-related activism:
>
> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/11/privacy-ubuntu-1210-full-disk-encryption
>