[SFDXA] Win 10

[Sebastian]

Apparently written by someone who still believes their information is secure when they do anything on the internet!

Security is a thing of the past.  If you drive a car, there are red-light cameras who are tracking you, there are police vehicles with cameras that are taking snapshots of your license plate, the SunPass cameras know who you are, where you are going, and how fast you are going.  And of course, if you buy some coffee at Dunkin Donuts with a credit card, ’they’ know what you are drinking!

As for me, I’m covering up my body with tin-foil, and after this email, I will disconnect from the world.  But before I go, let me just say th……….

;-) 

73 de Sebastian, W4AS

> On Aug 9, 2015, at 4:51 PM, Pete Rimmel N8PR <n8pr at bellsouth.net> wrote:
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> Thanks, John...
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> From: W6BXQ, John
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> 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.
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> Windows 10 Sucks and is Basically Spyware
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> by wilorg » Sun Aug 09, 2015 9:56 am
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> 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!*
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> *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.