On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 4:29 AM, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote: > > Outrageous data slurp default settings - the first thing anyone should > do post-install is read up on how to stop it phoning everything home. >
"Even when told not to, Windows 10 just can’t stop talking to Microsoft" http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2015/08/even-when-told-not-to-windows-10-just-cant-stop-talking-to-microsoft/ This is a real concern.It's annoying but tolerable, to find ads following you across the internet (this week, it's bike parts and John Deere tractors), but it's completely unacceptable that you can't do some research on local recent events or a disease a distant relative has. without a concern it somehow gets added without context to your "permanent record," free to be browsed by police departments, potential employers, insurance companies, and anyone willing to pay a few dollars to look you up. The internet is not anonymous, it never has been, but the level of active collection of Big Data is reaching disturbing levels. The recent flap with Lenovo spyware, slip-streaming software onto your copy of Windows without your knowledge nor consent, via a "feature" of the BIOS approved by Microsoft, makes the platform deeply untrustworthy, imo. This isn't the spyware/adware SuperFish earlier in the year, this is a new bug, likely industry-wide: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/12/lenovo_firmware_nasty/ "What is worrying is that all of this is pretty much what Microsoft intended. Its WPBT is engineered to allow manufacturers to painlessly inject drivers and programs into the operating system. " Wait, what? -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4skvs_gngs9l7xwvoo69kmlcugn5f6kusrgxttvkhq...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
