The title might not be in harmony with the post, but thinking a good title that perfectly matches your post... isn't that easy. Especially for this post.
And it's not like I'm sharing any personal experience, mine is a WinXP machine that wouldn't even pick 7. I'm rather telling what I've read over at THN for the past month or so, so for those of you who've been tuned to it, you can guess what I'm talking about.
Now we've been against surveillance for some time, so I thought of telling about it for those who've not noticed it or read about it.
Windows 10 Is Not Privacy-Friendly
For those who like to do the research for themselves, here you go. This is the place from where I will post a few relevant links and then close the article, without a signature image or line.
The idea is to be a bit more considerate than that, but since none of the material is mine, that'd be a problem.
And there is nothing that can not be understood in just 1 careless read, so you're better off with only it than with some introductions, which will not be worth our time.
But of course, here I am, ready to respond to anything you may ask that I can!
Windows 10 Keylogger
Windows 10 doesn't stop spying
Windows 10 stealing your bandwidth
WiFi Sense
Aggressive update
Not a very good tradeoff, if you ask me. But I prefer complete chaos, total privacy. So it depends on where it lies on your scale, but in general, I wouldn't recommend it for non-whitehat activities.
The End
These were just some of the articles, but the internal linking should point you to more.
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I've been following the whole Win10 debate via computeractive and webuser mags, as well as the online stuff. For what it's worth I wouldn't touch Win10 with a shitty stick! My Win7 machine is currently being stripped of all of it's relevant files before being swapped over to Fedora, like the rest of my laptops. The way that MS will effectively "run" your machine once they've forced Win10 on you is really scary. Given their dominance of the marketplace for home users then the average Joe can wave goodbye to any concept of privacy. And again, the majority of the public consign their right to privacy to the dustbin for the sake of convenience. Not me bud.
Do they really say it to be for convinience? In that case, I believe the people are in for a BIG surprise when the boxes actually open.
-The Joker
Windows works for those who don't ask. You can't show terminal to random people. That was the objective. People don't care about security. We do.
We do have options between total privacy and ease of use, ie. the noob-friendly distros of linux.
-The Joker
No. Linux will never be as user friendly as the society wants.
As soon as you call it "linux" people start sneezing: "What is this! Get me out of nere! How do I close windows?!" Believe me, they think I'm good at computer because I know how to open two windows at the same time, I swear.
Linux is the OS they need, but do not deserve right now.
I don't really mean it getting very user friendly, but usually people who switch to linux ready to change their habits and the feel of their system, are not known to come back to Windows.
So I believe the noob-friendly distros like Mint to be good enough. Of course, I'm not talking about new users taking up Arch or Gentoo or Slackware and finding it to be user friendly.
Ending it with Android, the most popular linux distribution. Of course it can get AS user friendly AS wanted, but that is a complex scenario, taking in account the market monopolies.
-The Joker
Seriously fucking hate this spying shit, anonymous should fuck em up
They wouldn't care for that. After all, it's corporate decision and people have the right to choose their OS. Anyone can switch to Mint or Debian or Kali, to make Microsoft change their decision.
-The Joker
People don't even know what OS means. Call that choice.
The resources of anonymous are limited. There is no chance that will happen. NSA would crush anonymous.
What tools or technology NSA is using?
I think NSA must have developed some secret technologies which we don't know...NSA has great resources and people.
Due to some AJAX error, I can't reply on comments since yesterday. So I guess I have to write it here, in a single comment.
Ciuffy, Phoenix750: Yes, it can not get too user-friendly, because it is made to be customizable and personalised. But, I believe, some distros are user-friendly enough for the society, like Mint or Ubuntu, which (are said to) don't need you to even touch the terminal for functionality that Windows provides.
Ciuffy: Yes, most of them don't, and it's a joke on the concept of 'choice', but even if we tell them what an OS is, they'd be reluctant to ever leave Windows. In fact, I explain OS to them as 'something like Windows/Android'. And for those people, security lies lower on the scale than convenience. But world, needs a lot of people who think the situation to be under their control, to be able to run, and that needs enough ignorance to do so.
Blue Charles: You should have a look at the data leaked by Snowden, or the news at THN.
OccupyTheWeb, Phoenix750: NSA is extremely powerful, yes (anyone who is surprised can go check the surveillance section on THN), but power is too unstable, because it's owner always wants perfect order in a world built on chaos. (It's like rolling some dices for your life, where result is fixed for each sum, and once activated, you get shot as the sum repeats. If all are activated, you get perfect order.) So, when their legal power fades away, they'll be like bare lambs in a jungle. (That, of course, refers to a downfall of the governing bodies.)
Phoenix750: Hacktivists resemble the need for proper distribution of power, so the NSA wouldn't dare crush them. They're the people keeping humanity away from the real dangers. If they're gone, ethics will be a relic of the past. The situation is similar to what'd happen if Batman is gone from Gotham City, it'll be ripped apart. But, of course, as long as they don't have absolute power of dictatorship, that is, which they're very close to achieving, but before that they'll be destroyed with the absolute chaos that comes with it.
-The Joker
WIth All these terrorist attacks going on,if NSA spying is only to gather information and thwart such attacks,then i have no problem with them spying on people...
That's a route, where no matter who wins, the whole of human race will lose, except the winner. I have problem if the rulers decide to go that route without explaining this to the general population, because I'm not willing to lose without trying, or even knowing.
-The Joker
i think that its bs how much info they collect why do they need all this i like not doing work but at a certain point its plain old creepy and at some point windows gets hacked gg. there goes everything look up an ip and you have so much data they can know you voice and there will be flaws and when it happens everyone will be pissed that they lost so much info but at my school i can get credit cards # they use 4 number passwords i show them how to get around it and they look at me like idiots. i sort feel like we need to do something against it. some ppl think that if you use encryptions your a hacker, and that honest ppl dont have anything to hide so why does the nsa need to look
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Yes. I'd add that I consider every bit of information they collect to be against life in general and human race in particular. I can't really tell why they need to look into honest people's data, but I do have my explanation on why would they want all the data in the world.
-The Joker
I'm not here to make a political statement or to get into the finer details but the reality is, despite this fear of the NSA and other agencies, they can't hack themselves out of a wet paper bag. All they can do is mass snoop and catch NOTHING.
Lets look quickly at the last 4 terrorist activities in the USA:
California: she posted all over the web her intentions. Capacity to prevent her and her husbands actions? Nil.
South Carolina: The guy had a website where he openly said what he was going to do. Capacity to prevent his actions? Nil.
Texas: chatter all over the Internet. Capacity to prevent their actions? Nil
Boston: chatter all over the internet and travelled abroad. Capacity to prevent their actions? Nil. Hell, they barely managed to catch them and only found the brother AFTER someone called it in, that's how incompetent they are.
Their incompetence is best summarized with Silk Roads: how long did he run circles around them? 1 year? 2 years? They only got lucky after a hacker on Reddit said that the Silk Road website was leaking it's IP and he said how it was leaking. Like winning a jackpot, doesn't take skill, just some luck.
They can't even follow the simple instructions that Apple left them with regards to the iPhone. He had one job to do: take the iphone to an IP range that the Iphone will recognize and back up the data to the iCloud, and the guy in charge couldn't even get that straight. I'd fire that idiot on the spot.
I'm not impressed.
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