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Peter Bright at ArsTechnica reports:
Windows 10 uses the Internet a lot to support many of its features. The operating system also sports numerous knobs to twiddle that are supposed to disable most of these features, and the potentially privacy-compromising connections that go with them.
Unfortunately for privacy advocates, these controls don't appear to be sufficient to completely prevent the operating system from going online and communicating with Microsoft's servers.
For example, even with Cortana and searching the Web from the Start menu disabled, opening Start and typing will send a request to www.bing.com to request a file called threshold.appcache which appears to contain some Cortana information, even though Cortana is disabled. The request for this file appears to contain a random machine ID that persists across reboots.
Hairyfeet's contribution adds the following:
A Czech site went one further and did a traffic analysis on a default Windows 10 install, what did he find? Well it looks like the Win 10 Keylogger in the beta is still running with pretty much every keystroke, voice, and webcam data being sent to Microsoft even with Cortana disabled.
[Ed's Comment: The report about the Czech traffic analysis originally came from a newspaper and some comments doubt the veracity of this source.]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Friday August 14 2015, @05:16PM
Maybe we would take you more seriously if you didn't rant and rave so much. You're like Ethanol only minus all the slurs ;)
And is it really so shocking that a bunch of people working for free, reverse-engineering support for a platform that is constantly upgrading are behind the curve? *cracks whip* Work harder, you retarded shitstains! Faster!!
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1, Redundant) by Hairyfeet on Friday August 14 2015, @08:59PM
I am old and won't pussyfoot or play politics, you want pretty lies? Go to HuffyPo or Faux, Homey don't play that.
And you DO know you are arguing the classic "shit sandwich" fallacy, yes? You are literally saying that if somebody hands you a free sandwich filled with dogshit that its free and you have no right to complain. Well YOU can munch down on that juicy dog turd but I will be more than happy to point out that free shit is STILL SHIT, be it Windows 10 keylogging shit or Linux broken shit, shit is shit is shit. And I notice you chose to ignore the entire post which to condense by stealing a line from a POTUS election "Its the programs stupid" because who gives a shit about your free OS if it doesn't run the programs I fricking bought a computer to run in the first place? I built my PC to 1.- Run my expensive A/V software, 2.- Play my games, 3.- Record said gameplay, 4.- Surf. The only one of those your OS does is the last and least important one as the software I use for the other 3? Yeah it don't work. And please don't point to some half ass ersatz copy that "kinda sorta" does those jobs because they do them poorly, with less features, and with lower performance.
So I'm sorry but your argument that just because a handful of people (just FYI more than 80% of work on Linux is paid for by major corps, the "free developers" is a myth, most are on a payroll of a corp like HP or Red Hat) do a piss poor job on their own time somehow makes it "noble" or worth giving up thousands of dollars in software just to take it? Well I'll be happy to paint the walls of your house in ditch water for absolutely nothing but I really don't think choosing me over Sherman Williams would be a wise choice, do you?
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday August 17 2015, @12:58AM
And you DO know you are arguing the classic "shit sandwich" fallacy, yes? You are literally saying that if somebody hands you a free sandwich filled with dogshit that its free and you have no right to complain.
I'm just pointing out that comparing Windows vs. MacOS vs. Linux on an even basis as you love to do isn't really fair.
I built my PC to 1.- Run my expensive A/V software, 2.- Play my games, 3.- Record said gameplay, 4.- Surf. The only one of those your OS does is the last and least important one as the software I use for the other 3? Yeah it don't work.
1. Why? There's the whole thing where on Linux you don't really *need* antivirus. I have a dual-boot Windows/Linux machine and I don't run that expensive antivirus shit either, even on Windows. If you're halfway tech-savvy (which you seem to be) you don't need it anyway.
2. Somewhat accurate, but WINE. It really depends what games you're talking about. Don't they support WoW pretty damn well? It's admittedly kludgy and hit-and-miss.
3. Yep, I'm sure that's covered, assuming of course you can get the game to run in the first place. Kind of disingenuous to list it as a separate bullet point since it's so heavily dependant on #2.
4. Also covered.
(just FYI more than 80% of work on Linux is paid for by major corps, the "free developers" is a myth, most are on a payroll of a corp like HP or Red Hat)
Yeah okay whatever Captain No Citation.
or worth giving up thousands of dollars in software
It seems like you're usually arguing this issue in a business context, which I concede. But just because Linux isn't the best solution for business doesn't make it "shit shit shit oh my god I wipe my ass with this shit fuck off and die" as you like to froth about.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Monday August 17 2015, @03:37AM
Are you REALLY saying "you don't need that" to the thousands of dollars of software that I spent nearly a grand building my PC to run? Really? Wait a minute...are you really so bad at Internet lingo you think A/V means antivirus? LOL A/V is "audio visual" as in programs to record and compose music and video, what you are thinking of is "AV" without the dash. my AV is free so I do not care if your OS has no AV, which just FYI you might want to Google "Linux malware" as metasploit now has no less than 4 pieces that WILL infect a Linux desktop so if you go to the wrong site? You'll be pwned quicker than an XP user.
Wine? LOL what a bad joke, if you are REALLY lucky you'll get 40% of the framerate and unless the game is WoW or a handful of otherf "this is too big for us to ignore" titles your performance is gonna be ass. I didn't spend $150 on my card to have it run like the $60 card I replaced, thanks. Also I refuse to buy Intel and Nvidia, I'm strictly AMD, and AMD drivers on Linux are fine for an XBMC using an APU, but for gaming? It would be like going back to Win98, no thanks.
And I take it you have never heard of this thing called Google? Here let me Bing it for you...there ya go [dbta.com], took less than 5 seconds. Next time try usiung a search engine, its really not hard, ok? If you need the search term its "the majority of Linux development paid for by" and you'll find hundreds of links saying the same thing, its paid by companies like RHEL and HP for SERVER use, desktop doesn't get more than a couple % and the lions share of that? Canonical on code nobody but they use.
And I have already proven its shit because it cannot perform what is the most basic function of an OS, the ability to update itself to respond to threats without shitting on its own drivers. The hairyfeet challenge has stood for EIGHT YEARS, without a single "user friendly" Linux passing, not one. What is this mountain of a task I ask Linux to do it simply cannot surmount? "Update yourself without shitting on your drivers"...that's it. Hell I even rigged the test in Linux' favor by removing items that frankly should be considered standard, no printers, no support for cell phones, hell I even left out support for gaming cards so those guys using Intel crap APUs could use their systems to take the challenge, result? Linux STILL craps itself and dies hard, in fact i have yet to see a Linux distro make it to year 3 without WiFi and sound busted, and often you'll get a black screen of death before you even get to that point. Feel free to take the challenge, its been posted all over the net but I warn ya if you do? You won't be singing the praises of Linux any more, in fact I had 2 that took the test tell me they went out and bought Mac Mini units as they were so depressed by what they saw they just quit Linux then and there.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.