[SFDXA] Win 10

[Pete Rimmel N8PR]

Thanks, John...


From: W6BXQ, John



After yesterday’s discussion of Win 10 nat the QCWA lunch,  I thought you 
might like to see this.  It was posted by someone on a forum I participate 
in.

Windows 10 Sucks and is Basically Spyware

by wilorg » Sun Aug 09, 2015 9:56 am

Well, did the install on my Acer desktop to test it out - first impression - 
it really tries to spy on you in every way possible - it hides any settings 
that could prevent spying under tons of slight of hand (you have to go 
through around 13 screens to undo all their spying on you, and even then you 
can bet you haven't got it all, since there is even more that can only be 
turned off by expert users in command line mode), it deliberately uninstalls 
any paid security software you have (Norton, whatever) to force you to use 
their own Windows Defender and Windows Firewall - even when you then 
reinstall your paid security software, Win10 will refuse to shut theirs off, 
forcing several conflicts. All this just so we can say "yay! the Start 
Button is back!" - rubbish, IMHO. This is the most perfidious software yet 
to offered from M$ and one that has a lot to answer for. Yes, it is a bit 
faster, but you trade off by letting M$ and anyone they want to sell the 
info to to see everything you have on your system, pretty much, and worse, 
to allow M$ to piggy back on your bandwidth, forcing you (unless you know 
how to disable it, and even then there is no guarantee) to share your 
bandwidth when doing any updates or downloads across a multiplicity of 
networks. Insecure? It is unbelievable! It wants any camera you have and any 
microphone you have to be permanently open, which is downright creepy. It 
wants you to share your WIFI network and settings. It wants your passwords, 
it wants everything! Even George Orwell would be amazed at how much people 
are willingly allowing Big Brother to invade their lives with this latest 
(and last) version of Windows OS. I expect it will take me at least three 
days of hacking to get my system secure again. Keyloggers! It has sanctioned 
keyloggers and no way to turn them off (unless you know a bit of command 
line hacking)! The average Jo is doomed on this! Take my advice, unless you 
NEED M$ (unfortunately, I do), get Linux and tell the world to bugger off!*

*smug-faced Mac worshippers take note - you are just as insecure and spied 
upon on your systems - in some ways, even worse, as are all Android users. 
Turn off Siri, my friends.