Posted on 08/08/2015 8:29:27 AM PDT by Perseverando
Seems to be. Some of the outrageous b.s. claims like the one above about Windows 10 have no basis in fact and do as you've indicated, point right at the posters technical illiteracy.
That's typically why I stay off most threads like this one. I've been a beta tester for Microsoft for over 15 years now. The claims made by the original poster have no basis in fact. None whatsoever.
Okay,like personal stuff, where you go, what you view, etc? Or in a word: Data.
FWIW: Within the past month, I was talking to some senior citizen acquaintances with family members working in "internet security jobs" in the D.C. area. These "dangerous" elderly geezers were instructed by the "in the loop" techies not to post anything online, controversial or not.
A legitimate complaint. In some ways, this reminds me of the early days of Windows XP, where Microsoft installed and enabled IIS, FTP Server and Core Networking Services as part of the default install.
Installing IIS and enabling it by default was the main reason so many viruses propagated so quickly over the internet. Viruses were specifically created to use IIS as the point to access and infect the users computer AND aid in progagating those types of viruses over the internet.
That problem was so bad, Microsoft had to slipstream in an update to disable the installation of IIS by default, and they changed the code being written to CD/DVD Install disks also.
Yeah, the good old days.
It is much harder to do today, but you used to be able to do a low level format of your hard drive. That is the only way to scrub every *possible* place where hidden data might be stored. And Microsoft was at the forefront in hiding data where it could not be readily found or overwritten. The operating system just pretended it did not exist, unless it got orders from Microsoft. Such hidden bits were long used in copyright schemes.
Sadly, hard drive makers now insist on doing low level formats themselves, and only in the factory. So the only way of being safe is to get a new hard drive. Or not use one at all, instead having a thumb drive OS, thumb drive hard drive, etc.
You can also go back later if you miss it and stop them too. (win10) >Start>Settings>Privacy; go thru the entire list on the left side.
Para 1: Did that at install, as I mentioned in post #30 above.
Para 2: I was aware of that too and looked at briefly before deciding that I probably didn't want to opt in to Microsoft's data collection project.
Thankyou.
“And you could not go and turn off the data collection options (you could have done that during the initial install), but instead post an absurd rant essentially saying you have no idea what you are doing?”
I wonder if those are the *only* data collection methods baked in?
I wonder if there is also a backdoor to compromise security for the government/s?
They should have made a point of saying that Microsoft would protect its customers for privacy issue and then follow through. It might have helped it increase its phone share as well if it had done that.
You have nailed it. What was Microsoft thinking? The only goodwill they are building is with our new improved police state.
What is your operating system? I have grown comfortable with the XP format and learned to do a lot of useful things with Outlook for creating and filing my business communications.
Oh no you're not! You're not insinuating massive government spying on its citizens. </sarc>
LOL! Same here.
Activate God Mode in Windows 10 for Quick Access to Windows Commands
http://lifehacker.com/activate-god-mode-in-windows-10-for-quick-access-to-win-1721853635
Tell your doc to up the strength of your meds old man
FR is mostly old geezers so don’t be surprised about these tinfoil conspiracy threads Andrew technology
Andrew = and new
It all started back in about 2003 when Walmart started selling desktop PCs for under $500.
FR was never the same after that.
“If that’s your attitude...”
I guess it is. But I can be distrustful and still surf the internet. Just this morning, after receiving a email from “Lotitia Grizell wanting to be my f#=/buddy...contact her at this link...”, I told my wife, I’d love to just completely disconnect from everything. That was my business email. I’m even starting to get that stuff on my personal email that I only use with family.
Sheesh.
not only is it spyware, but it also is automatically a bittorrent-like server for pushing MS updates to unlimited numbers of OTHER Windows 10 systems on the wide area Internet!
tons of new and refurb W7 Pro systems available on Dell.com. W7 PCs will be sold for several more years. The enterprise did not convert to W8 and they won’t be converting to W10 either, and yet PC companies still want to sell some PCs. Go figure.
Best bets for Dell are Optiplexes and latitudes. Their consumer stuff isn’t very good.
If you want a desktop, there’s plenty of new W7 Pro x64 optiplexes (includes Dell factory onsite 3 yr warranty builtin) for sale at great prices at places like newegg.com and provantage.com. I buy these from both places all the time for both my business and consumer clients. They run around $615.00 delivered for 1TB HD, 8GB RAM, I5 Intel CPU, DVD-RW optical drive, etc.
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