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The impudence of Microsoft has reached new (criminal?) heights
SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: rdl on August 07, 2020, 05:04:06 am ---The entire internet has become a privacy mess. The main problem is how companies like Microsoft, Google, etc. act as if having an connection gives them the right to do as they please with it. Probably 99% of the people that use computers have no idea how much is really going on without their knowledge.
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The trick, I guess, is - don't connect any "serious" computer to the Internet! :D
Keep Internet connectivity on a separate machine that is used for communications, and anything valuable on the isolated one.
rsjsouza:
--- Quote from: rdl on August 07, 2020, 05:04:06 am ---The entire internet has become a privacy mess. The main problem is how companies like Microsoft, Google, etc. act as if having an connection gives them the right to do as they please with it.
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Well, I dislike this as much as anyone else, but somenody has to pay for all this infrastructure and energy... The golden egg is targeted advertisement...
--- Quote from: rdl on August 07, 2020, 05:04:06 am ---Probably 99% of the people that use computers have no idea how much is really going on without their knowledge.
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True for that and for pretty much most aspects of life... We "in the know" suffer the most.
rsjsouza:
--- Quote from: bd139 on August 07, 2020, 07:59:00 am ---
--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on August 07, 2020, 02:08:02 am ---
--- Quote from: Red Squirrel on August 07, 2020, 01:51:00 am ---That's one thing I got to give MS at least their OSes are more stable than before now. :P
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Thank Linux for that - remember how Linux just started becoming practical for everyday desktop use?
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LOL no. It’s just as if even not more broken than windows.
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I remember there were talks around Win 2000 or XP that Microsoft was surreptitiously using open source software to improve their own OSes. If that is true, then it would be one aspect where Linux would be thanked.
But yes, I agree Linux it is just a different type of mess.
bd139:
They did. Half the network stack in windows 2000 was from BSD. They should have stolen the rest of it while they were there and run win32 on top of it.
duckduck:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on August 07, 2020, 11:24:35 am ---
--- Quote from: rdl on August 07, 2020, 05:04:06 am ---The entire internet has become a privacy mess. The main problem is how companies like Microsoft, Google, etc. act as if having an connection gives them the right to do as they please with it. Probably 99% of the people that use computers have no idea how much is really going on without their knowledge.
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The trick, I guess, is - don't connect any "serious" computer to the Internet! :D
Keep Internet connectivity on a separate machine that is used for communications, and anything valuable on the isolated one.
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That is exactly what QubesOS ( https://www.qubes-os.org/ ) does, except that it's done all on one PC in virtual machines. If you're a privacy nerd this OS is the dog's bollocks.
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