Paranoya will destroya! LOL I agree. I use Windows 10 all the time. Everything is turned on, and no black hats are a knockin at the door!
It isn't. Its an either/or request. Provide anything at all to back up assertions. Present a case. Give something that shows there is any point whatsoever to treating these conspiratorial claims as coming from somewhere other than fantasy land, or admit they can't and drop it. Sadly neither of which they are capable of, but only the former for good reason. The latter for attention seeking.
OK, nobody here is actually ANSWERING THE QUESTION ASKED! I repeat: Why did MS include options, settings, features, GPEDIT.msc, and registry entries that are supposed to disable spying IF in reality they do not!? I am not complaining about spying - I am asking WHY include options that do not do anything? For what purpose?
Because the options do do something. This isn't some incredibly complicated conspiracy like certain individuals are fantasising. You can TEST THIS YOURSELF in about what, thirty seconds at most? Go ahead and try. Go turn on whatever you like, and watch the traffic. Then turn it off and compare. The article as pointed out is inaccurate. You can check that for yourself by doing so.
Asking ppl here about what exactly M$ has implemented is ridiculous. Even if you asked M$ why they did this you would not get a straight answer. Good luck. lol
This has been around since Vista days actually (before that with nt authority) but now with win10 there is more added to info gathering. Best advise, don't use any windows OS online then you have nothing to worry about. What about your smartphones? Those are even worse but no one will do without them. lol As long as keylogging is disabled who cares....they are not going to arrest everyone who does questionable things...we would need a new planet to hold everyone. lmao! So M$ see's you watching porn...who cares...they do also. lmao!
Paul to be honest with you, most of the time I have no idea what I type with the iPhone touch screen at most times, your not the only one having trouble understanding my English at most of the time, the touch screens are not to ideal for big hand folks like myself... By the way too! Much Info Paul, enjoy your retirement if that's your new gig. The Nic remark is to inform you that I am a returning member after a few years since windows 8 got dropped into the spectrum and you and I had our good points and low points in the past, just to touch base and explain a little more then just letting the convo die at a meaningless spot, due to respect to you and the following members of all MDL Windows Forum...
Tell someone provides proof this is all tin foal hats and conspiracy stuff. Is it possible yes but its a really bad idea to do since it would eventually get out in this day and age and be very very bad for any business no matter how big. Are they collecting data on none identifying habits and the like of course they are as they are in a business. One thing for certain is that people are going to be examining things under a microscope like they always do as we eventually find out whats going on.
The ONLY way ppl will find out the truth is either do their own research (which wont happen...easier to complain) or contact M$ and hope they tell you the truth...good luck with that. Bottom line. I personally think mods and admins should lock down these topics because they go no where. Just my 1 cent. lol
Same. No issues here. Smfh. All these people worrying about being spied on and whining and complaining in like 3+ different threads acting like they have a gun pointed at their head being forced to use Windows 10. Its ridiculous.
I'm starting to feel the same... I mean, about all this paranoia. I've tested disabling some tasks in task scheduler, and they are not restored or "healed"... they keep disabled, some of them are the customer experience and aplication experience stuff (Alongside with a pair of tasks that said they ran on startups healing the system...). I got a Windows 7 machine that uses Office 2013, and has the msosync task... well, if that botters you, just disable that task and you are fine... do people realize that task/exe is for uploading files to Onedrive and act as a fallback in case there is a problem? I just disable the task because I hate looking unused processes wasting RAM and CPU time during startup... The only thing that seems to restore after a certain amount of time if you disable it, is the Windows Defender, even if you unplug the net cable... my conclusion is that probably it has a "timer" or something, that makes WinDefend enable itself after a while. Probably that behavior can be avoided if you completely kill the service... I need to test with Windows Update too... Probably, probably there is too much paranoia about ths because of the NSA and all that crap, that maybe, and just maybe is a way to distract you from the real problems outside of your computer. I mean, since always, companies and police can track you through your IP, many hackers have been arrested and so... what stops them? Government and companies don't really need an OS to spy on you, they have better tools if they want.
Is weird, modem log show no traffic byte transferred if i left the PC unused. So what the hell is that article is talking about? Or is it being targeted for a specific region at specific time?
I don't believe that. What about the guys that have a Windows phone and only 100 Mb free volume transfer per month ? They will recognize the large background data transmission very fast. I more believe this.
if done so the secret is transferring only differential, rsa encryped data on ssl, then all that's left is untraceable scrambled chunks