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Everything about privacy (the confidentiality pillar of security) -- but not restricted to infosec. Offline privacy is also relevant here.

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I'm checking out various "personal knowledge management" tools in a sandbox to see if it be an upgrade my ragtag collection of text file-based notes.

First candidate is #Logseq, supposedly "privacy-first".

How #privacy friendly is something based on Electron (aka Chrome)? Debatable, but then they also do this:

  1. Have "Send usage data" on by default
  2. Start with an example page that embeds a YouTube video, and accepts all cookies

tcpdump and mitmproxy go wild when starting the program.

Shows that the "Send usage data and diagnostics to Logseq" setting is enabled by default.
Shows the services being contacted by Logseq over HTTPS right after starting it for the first time.  Hosts that are being contact: www.youtube.com, googleads.g.doubleclick.net, jnn-pa-googleapis.com, play.google.com, app.posthog.com, o416451.ingest.sentry.io

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[โ€“] tal@mastodon.social 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@loadhigh just in case you're not aware, the current release of LogSeq is pretty much abandoned. They've been developing a database version for the last year+ that's now in beta, I think. (I have not looked into the privacy claims or facts about that version though)

[โ€“] loadhigh@bitbang.social 1 points 2 months ago

@tal@mastodon.social Interesting, I didn't know that. Logseq has quite a following so odd of them to go for a full rewrite.

But I guess that's a luxury you can afford with $4.1 million :P