Windows 10

I don't think a few of those new policies are legal in Germany and a few other countries.

 

FUCK YOU Microsoft!

http://www.pcgamesn.com/i-ve-found-the-absolute-worst-thing-about-windows-10

QUOTE:

I reviewed Windows 10, and I sort of think it’s okay. But then, this morning, I’ve made an earth shattering, hell-bending discovery. Something that has entirely reversed my opinion, something that has shaken me to my absolute core.



It involves Microsoft’s Solitaire Collection.

This.



Stop the planet. I want to get off.

 

Yea, like, they can grab your crypt key and share it with anyone. And everything about you and anyone you come into contact with and of any network you're connected to.

Can do whatever they want with the data?

Not cool.

But hey, 2016 is going to be exactly like 1984. And everyone's "lovin' it"

 

Hasn't that been around for over a year now on 8? I'd be more worried about this stuff: http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2015/07/29/wind-nos/

 

"Sign into Windows with your Microsoft account and the operating system immediately syncs settings and data to the company’s servers. That includes your browser history, favorites and the websites you currently have open as well as saved app, website and mobile hotspot passwords and Wi-Fi network names and passwords."

"Microsoft collects “your voice input, as well as your name and nickname, your recent calendar events and the names of people in your appointments, and information about your contacts including names and nicknames.” "

"Your encryption key is backed up to OneDrive"

"Microsoft can disclose your data when it feels like it"


That's what I meant by "2016 will be just like 1984". I was also trying to make fun of Apple's old commercial given that both Apple and Microsoft are the two biggest Big Brothers on this planet.

I'm just waiting for the inevitable autonomous cars that will all one day put on child locks and drive all the people to some concentration camp


But yea, what the hell? All my passwords, my network data, everything you'd need for a complete identity theft or as intel for hacking my entire network and decrypting crypted data, it's all stored "in the cloud".

Also, not so excited about potential "hey, guess what, scrollwheel support is a premium feature" that might come up with some patch.


The big corps definitely don't listen to people, they are just pushing everyone to this mold they've designed. It doesn't help that Microsoft has a monopoly and Apple is pretty damn close to one and no one is offering any alternate views either.

While linux is a PITA, it is every year more tempting. Just hope Unity guys will end up offering full support for linux development so I can start skipping windows altogether.

 

Do you use Google?

These are already things everyone knows about you. Maybe not internet history, but everything else. I will be turning it all off... but I use Gmail and google, so google already knows all this stuff about me.

 

Pretty sure google has that "we can share our data on you when we want"

 

It's kind of naive at this point to think that anyone has any real expectation of privacy on the Internet. If you're online, someone knows what you're doing.

 

im diggin it so far. most of the privacy issues (at least the ones i was concerned about) come up during the install process, though i did have to manually adjust a few things in the settings. a quick run of CCleaner handled most of the rest

 

you know. most of that stuff with the browser history and what not probably has to do with Bing since microsoft made/owns/whatever it. still the shittiest search engine ever. why did microsoft even make bing when they already had internet explorer which is better than bing? still turning off most of that shit.

how are you supposed to get the notification anyways? email? the update thing in the bottom right? I haven't seen anything saying how.

 

grrrr.... i'll give it a few days.... but so far i am not particularly impressed.. especially with the fact that i no longer can use any desktop monitoring gadgets.. cause "Fuck you" ... if i dont see a "NEED" for this (maybe Dx 12) i'll just revert back to win 7 pro.

 

I think I get the notification to change sometime early next month.

 

I wrote a software that uses symmetric encryption that is impossible to break even with quantum computers and brute force.

I haven't bothered to take it into use but one of these days I'll visit everyone I mail with and I'll share a keyfile with them. After that it's good luck to google trying to figure out what's going on with my life.

I'm not worried as much about public things like if I have children or so. I'm absolutely pissed when they try to wiggle their way to access trade secrets, designs, code, financial numbers etc. Fuck that.

If you simply take every letter of a message, replace it with a key from a list of n options and add some random keys in there that are null strings, maybe rearrange all the letters etc. and if you're feeling like it use 2 or 3 different sets of key to iterate the process.

Good luck figuring it out, it is possible to design it so that things like frequency analysis doesn't work because none of the keys are ever repeated and because it is impossible to tell the difference between a null key and a real one or figure out how long the original message was to begin with. Yea, how do you solve that? A message that is 100 bytes long could be anything from no message to any single letter, "yes" "no" "maybe" "cat" etc. up to 50 letter sentence and probability for each is the same.

If you ask me that's pretty unbreakable. If you get paranoid you can even store the key to a separate machine that is offline like Battlestar Galactica, but I doubt Google is going to hack into your computer to retrieve your keyfile from your hard drive. Microsoft sounded like that's exactly what they're interested in, sweep all of your passwords and locks up to their servers as soon as you turn your computer on.

 

I thought that was just good security sense to not save passwords at all? if i need to remember them I just write them down on paper. I don't think there is a single one saved anywhere. hell I don't even save credit card info. sadly most people out there don't really know anything about computers other than what they need to know.

 

Almost makes me want to build a 300 dollar computer and put Win 1o on it to just store dick pics and gay porn so they can just get all that goodness up in them.

 

Phone rings:
"Hi! I'm calling from Dickbutt Products Inc, we have a special offer just for you..."

 

Thats when you somehow get it so its microsoft customer support number on the machine

 

Well, I upgraded to 10 today. No major issues so far. But I did have my nVidia driver crash on me out of the blue... kind of weird.

 

Neat app for Steam and Windows 10. Lets you create live tiles of the games you play the most in your start menu.

http://www.pcgamesn.com/steam-tile-app-fills-out-your-windows-8-mosaic-your-game-library