Didier & all,

From:    Didier Kryn <kryn@???>
Date:    Sat, 22 Nov 2025 11:16:47 +0100

> It was in the news two days ago that many web sites over the world
> had stopped working because some site in the US named cloudflare was
> temporarily broken.

In debian-user a while back, was a comment about noticeable slowness
of a Web browser on a generally capable system. User page access and
mouse focus were asserted to be reported to servers. If JavaScript on
my machine insists on contacting a third party server before
completing a task, and that third party fails to respond, then my
browser process is stuck. With the tools in Linux, people far more
skilled than me can analyse in detail.

> I'm pretty sure that my communications with my son 10km away from me
> through whatsapp cross several times the Atlantic ocean.

Needless to say, avoid use of a mobile device competely accessible to
a mega-corporation and third parties.

An old-fashioned solution is to put an SMTP client on each communicating
machine. Then your mail transfer agemt transmits to your son's
machine as directly as routing allows. Same for the reverse
direction. Avoid involvement of Whatsapp and any other proprietary
entity.

If commercial interests are given half a chance, certainly we'll be
bamboozled. My M.P. has submitted the draft petition for evaluation
of legal feasibility. Technicalities may defeat it but apathy achieves
nothing. I'll report the outcome.

Regards,                          ... P.

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