As if we weren’t being spied on enough already:
According to a recent report, if you are a Windows 10 user then every single keystroke you have ever typed on your computer may have been logged and sent to Microsoft.
You know those nagging questions during the installation process that ask you whether or not you want to “help” improve Windows by sending data to Microsoft? If you happened to answer “yes” to one of these questions, or if you went with the Microsoft default installation, there is a real possibility that everything you have done on your computer from the get-go, including sending “secure” messages (because the keyboard logger captures your keystrokes before they appear in your secure messaging app), is now a part of a massive user database somewhere.
You will never convince me that those keystrokes disappear at Microsoft. My guess is they are searched for flagged terms and any that have flagged terms or come from specific targets get thrown in the database. Which would mean if the machine turns on you, everything you type will be attached to your permanent file.
And have no doubt, even if you turn it off, I would be shocked if it couldn’t be remoted back on.
This is now the baseline. From here we advance further into the surveillance state.
The future is going to be a really weird place.
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The Chinese helped Microsoft develop Windows 10. It’s probably used on quite a few US gov/mil computers at this very moment. And nobody really knows how many of their chips are in our high tech military gear, including nukes. Ain’t outsourcing grand?
https://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2016/03/28/microsoft-windows-10-china/#.tnw_LYsisVee
Wow!
And the way Microsoft makes Windows uses three teams to write code, one each for testing, writing and debugging. If China got involved with any, but especially debugging then they would have a complete list of zero-day attacks on Windows 10.
Use Linux, you won’t have to re-buy your hardware. Ubuntu for the greatest convenience. It comes with pain of its own but, it’ll handle Microsoft Office suite documents and certainly web stuff, just fine. With work you can /frequently/ get it to run actual Windows programs as-is.
I use Ubuntu and Windows 7 on a dual-boot system. Install Windows first, it doesn’t cooperate well (or didn’t in earlier versions), but Linux knows all about Windows and will work with it.
It depends upon what you are doing. If the Windows partition can “see” the Linux partition, you have no true security. Additionally the software that you plug into Linux can have its own issues such as the internet browser. How do you think that free browsers make money? Usually that little search bar at the top. Let’s not forget your ISP. Things like Tor struck me as potential honeypots when they were first being discussed. Either way you have to know what you are fighting, marketers, medical information sharing, company secrets, covert operations, etc. It is better to have a footprint for the usual and expected. If you need to do something covert such as medical, political or moral turpitude, use a separate machine, separate internet access point and never these for anything else. For casual reading that you do not want memorialized, a Linux install with a VPN using a private per session browser. However due to advertising on website, the minute that you create a user profile to post, comment or buy something; your privacy is done.