Get used to it, buddy / You think *that's* scary?.. / Why we use
Gnu/Linux
On 2015-07-11 12:30, dave wrote:
Used my google account on another computer at home last night and
this
morning got the below email (well snippet of the email) ...
The Google Accounts team* The location is approximate and determined
by
the IP address it was coming from.
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For the heck of it / updating industry skills / because I don't buy
Windows (7 came with my last new laptop and Vista with my 2nd-hand
desktop box) / and because it is 'free' (not libre), I am trialling
Windows 10 on its 'insider program'.
Windows users no longer own their device login (!) and maybe lost that
during Windows 8 (?)
So if your secure password has become too complex for even you to
figure out (or maybe you've selected the wrong keyboard at install) you
can still save the situation - by logging on elsewhere to your Redmond
account (!) and changing it there. So when you go back to your reluctant
device, somehow mysteriously, through the interwebz, the changed
password has effect (!) Wow. That was easy. No more reboot with
CD/DVD/thumbdrive toolkit, to reset the password, is required!
Downside: Windows users can no longer own their own hardware device, it
seems. Not that they ever did. The software lease obligation can thus
now be rigorously applied. Upside: the geographical mapping is really
flash (and not Google).
This is why we build our own systems (management) using Gnu/Linux.
Independence! Relatively.
But the location feature is central to cutting edge service rollouts
now, and on all devices (?) so the brave new world is already here.
Good luck
Rik
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