8Muddypaws
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The thing that millions of people take umbrage about in Windows 10 are the anti-privacy features. There are too many of them to enumerate here.
Well, it just got serious because Microsoft is rolling those 'features' out to all versions of 7 & 8. Even worse, the new features disregard any previous privacy settings and begin key logging, recording everything you type.
You can go into the new control panel settings and manually disable these features or un-install and hide the 4 updates as shown in this article. http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/69248-windows-10-snooping-comes-to-windows-7-and-8 There are many more such articles on tech forums.
Key logging is by far the worst idea anyone could ever allow on their computer. Passwords, credit card numbers, logon ID's? All being sent to a 'secure' server somewhere.
My statement regarding security: 'there is no security this side of the grave'. Somebody will eventually hack into the server and gain access to petabytes of passwords, credit cards, etc.
I was in a security class in Chicago in the mid '90s where 'they' boasted that their security platform was impenetrable. I sat in the back of the room and not only got into it in less than 5 minutes I changed their splash screen to a SF 49'ers logo. I made it look like one of their employees did it but told them about it after a few minutes of hilarity. They offered me a job in Boston, which I didn't accept. At the time I was the technical vice president of the national users group and may have known their systems better than most.
Well, it just got serious because Microsoft is rolling those 'features' out to all versions of 7 & 8. Even worse, the new features disregard any previous privacy settings and begin key logging, recording everything you type.
You can go into the new control panel settings and manually disable these features or un-install and hide the 4 updates as shown in this article. http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/69248-windows-10-snooping-comes-to-windows-7-and-8 There are many more such articles on tech forums.
Key logging is by far the worst idea anyone could ever allow on their computer. Passwords, credit card numbers, logon ID's? All being sent to a 'secure' server somewhere.
My statement regarding security: 'there is no security this side of the grave'. Somebody will eventually hack into the server and gain access to petabytes of passwords, credit cards, etc.
I was in a security class in Chicago in the mid '90s where 'they' boasted that their security platform was impenetrable. I sat in the back of the room and not only got into it in less than 5 minutes I changed their splash screen to a SF 49'ers logo. I made it look like one of their employees did it but told them about it after a few minutes of hilarity. They offered me a job in Boston, which I didn't accept. At the time I was the technical vice president of the national users group and may have known their systems better than most.