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Ah, I stand corrected. An 'inner collective' if you would, not such a strong group once they are know to have the 'pack' orders or just the mentality. One is curable, the other is not.
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Or simply to create division.
 
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Either or, I'm quite sure if the OS was to be infected with 'devices' it would be through an flash update (especially the emergency ones) or a back-door built into the bios that can be accesses remotely by 'skilled people'. If people are tricked into asking questions about things that don't matter that leaves the 'hidden agenda' are remaining hidden. TV could even help shorten people's attention span by inserting commercials at regular intervals, or something as simple and effective. The payoff is they can be distracted easily and they hardly ever pick it up where they left off.
 
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Dexter Sinister said:
Yes, as a matter of fact they are. Read Glenn Greenwald's book No Place To Hide. He's the journalist who broke the Edward Snowden story. The security services of the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, are cooperatively engaged in spying on everybody they can, a project called Five Eyes, and they've been doing it for years. The data cloud gathered by Microsoft's operating systems is accessible to them.
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I see, and that would be without a warrant?
 
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Wouldn't that though be incentive to leave them bread crumbs that lead in circles. If you expect they can examine everything then you won't be disappointed when they can do just that.
 
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DaSleeper said:
Maybe I should have color coded everything I wrote in this thread today......the meme is pretty hard to do though!
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Everything after the meme I knew you were being facetious. However, it appears that there are some on this thread that really feel the government actually takes a real and personal interest in what they are doing on their computer and the internet.

Like I said, it's pretty sad to live your life feeling that way.



OH, and Dexter, I don't feel that snowden is any more trust worthy than any other government shill. He was/is looking for a pay off. I* feel he will say what ever he thinks will benefit him the most in the long run. Same with anyone writing a book. They will write what sells.
 
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Those who cry the loudest about internet privacy, probably use shopping points cards from several stores, or use a credit card for all their shopping to accumulate free shopping points or air miles, not realizing that they broadcast voluntarily more data about themselves than most of their internet habits....
 
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damngrumpy said:
The time has come for companies to stop putting crap out there before the bugs are worked
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It was time 20 years ago. But you know that is not going to happen.

Dexter Sinister said:
I note the last paragraph of that piece says, "Finally, it's worth pointing out that these are just the visible config flags; without some packet-level analysis, it's hard to say exactly what data is being sent back to Microsoft, and by which service. As one commenter pointed out, even after they disabled Cortana and turned off a bunch of privacy-related settings, the search box still seemed to be sending keystroke data back to Microsoft."

I do not trust fiddling with Win10's privacy settings alone to really give me secure control of the machine. You also need to block the IP addresses Microsoft uses for telemetry, disable certain processes, block certain updates, and kill off a number of scheduled tasks. That's what that little Spybot thing I linked to earlier does. Actually I don't trust even that, Microsoft is quite capable of hiding monitoring and telemetry functions in some other essential system process like svchost.exe, and that paragraph cited above suggests that's what they've done. Paranoia seems to me the only rational attitude, particularly in light of Edward Snowdon's revelations that security services are engaged in widespread, suspicionless, warrantless wiretapping of everyone they can. That's why I use Windows only as a virtual machine and only for things I can't do readily with Linux, like updating my GPS device. The vendor's management software runs only on Windows, so I'll activate Windows for as long as that takes then shut it down.
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I guess you are talking about Spybot Search and Destroy. It is a program I discovered more than a decade ago. I usually don't have it installed as it conflicts with my antivirus, but I still run it every now and then.

DaSleeper said:
Those who cry the loudest about internet privacy, probably use shopping points cards from several stores, or use a credit card for all their shopping to accumulate free shopping points or air miles, not realizing that they broadcast voluntarily more data about themselves than most of their internet habits....
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Yes - businesses are out there and they are watching us.
 
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It gets better.... Save your Bookmarks because when the Windows 10 monster has a temper tantrum and goes into automatic repairs mode (reformat without your permission) you'll lose them all like I just did after a day of being screwed around by this hateful piece of shyte. I will never again buy Asus or go to Best Buy. Bring back Windows XP!
 
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I have three PCs in the house on windows 10, since July, the one my wife uses on automatic updates, the other two(That I use) on manual updates...(Don't ask me how I managed that.....I forgot...( lol), and so far I have downloaded every update available,

The one thing I don't like about it is if I happen to reset the router to clear it, once in a while, It keeps asking me for the router password, but I only have to cancel the prompt twice to get back on the internet...
 
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Dexter Sinister said:
Yes, as a matter of fact they are. Read Glenn Greenwald's book No Place To Hide. He's the journalist who broke the Edward Snowden story. The security services of the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, are cooperatively engaged in spying on everybody they can, a project called Five Eyes, and they've been doing it for years. The data cloud gathered by Microsoft's operating systems is accessible to them.
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You can't take a shower without them.
 
Bar Sinister

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bill barilko said:
I'd forgotten about that-used it back in the day.

So it's downloaded now and I ran it but didn't come up with much- CC Cleaner seems to be doing the job well enough.
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Not finding anything is good news. As I said I don't usually have it as it regards my antivirus as spyware.
 
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