Haha.. yeah, while they're at it, they might as well enable remote control of your machine so they can use it too.. Wild!
Mine? Nah, they can't get in! ;-) Also, I don't have pirated stuff. No music, videos, games, programs, series, movies.. nothing. I respect people's work.
@deBoetie -- Thank you for taking the time to respond. Regarding Firejail, I saw your posts in the nix sub-forum. Interesting program; SBIE like. Anyone interested, it's here : https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/firejail-linux-sandbox.369309/
No, just kidding. I don't have any pirated stuff either. Nowadays there's so much free stuff it's never necessary anyway....
No dissent here. My usual instincts regarding new versions of Windows have taken hold and I haven't even bothered with Windows 10 yet, even for free. In fact, my public persona has gotten so busy the last month that I'm not giving much time to my computer projects. I'm still using Office 2003 and have found no need to upgrade from that version. If I do, I will use a non MS alternative.
So you have nothing to worry about, until they come knocking at your door because... you respect people's work and suddenly that's a crime.
Aparently they can Specially since there are so many hidden features in Windows. That doesn't mean they are into your PC now, though. But as it has been proven, they control Windows; not you, not anything else.
So are they controlling or not? You say yes, then no. They're not, I don't care what people speculate.
Ummm.... I never said they are controlling your PC in particular. I said "they control Windows", meaning they control their Operating System entirely as they see fit; and that they CAN control over your PC, but that doesn't mean they are doing so ATM.
I'm pretty sure there are ways to get into ANY system, regardless of OS, directly thru hardware and chip access via high tech methods. So nothing is really bulletproof...
I don't know, with the kind of mitigations I have in place, it would be *REALLY* hard to invade my system. But I don't doubt it's possible.
They basically have access to everything on your computer, and they also may decide to share some of it with 3rd parties, not to mention that having your data and your logged activities on their servers opens up the possibility that what's on their servers could also be hacked and abused by other parties. My advice I guess, for anyone using 10, is that you need to go into it with the idea that you're not afraid of making anything and everything on your computer public. So if you have anything you wouldn't want the public to see (or other organizations or agencies), then you better not use 10.
I think the best decision I made while using Windows (7, Home Basic) was not to type my GPG keys' passphrases Can you imagine now with Windows 10?
Haha.. ok, good. Best idea of all with 10 is to take a wait and see how it all shakes out approach... I don't think it's looking too good.
