SatansSon Posted August 19, 2015 Posted August 19, 2015 How do you guys feel about all this? Please do your research before writing me a love letter. I also have a question for Iain, does the NetDuma's Stealth Mode feature protect us from prying eyes? I recently switched back to Linux, it just gives me a peace of mind. What are your thoughts young Padawans? Am I just f**king paranoid? I think the proof is in the pudding, 'that's what she said.'
Dillinger Posted August 19, 2015 Posted August 19, 2015 Do you have any examples/specifics of what is bothering you, or is this a homework assignment before anyone can respond?
Akic Posted August 19, 2015 Posted August 19, 2015 Well a "free" upgrade was bound to have a catch. You can turn a lot of the "phone home" stuff off but not all of it, at the end of the day our mobile devices do this as routine and no-one bats an eye about it but add it to an OS and it's Armageddon. Personally I'm not too bothered about it for my personal machines, my business machines which have sensitive data on are either linux or Win 7 with no plans on upgrading there. My biggest problem with win 10 is the forced updates, how many times have M$ pushed out a bad update? Now you don't even get a chance to decline it...I predict bad things happening with that hair-brained policy.
UK_Wildcats_Fans Posted August 19, 2015 Posted August 19, 2015 It got me curious so I did some research. Articles about it http://www.techworm.net/2014/10/microsofts-windows-10-permission-watch-every-move.html http://bgr.com/2015/07/31/windows-10-upgrade-spying-how-to-opt-out/ http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/17/technology/windows-10-privacy/ Turning off privacy settings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=octjhIXkcf0
procreate Posted August 19, 2015 Posted August 19, 2015 its fine on my phone for tracking stuff, i actually need it there. not on my workstation. that is just invasive and wont be ever upgrading to it. i hope adobe starts supporting linux in the future if they stop supporting win7.
iAmMoDBoX Posted August 20, 2015 Posted August 20, 2015 XP for everyone! Lol, nah 7 is staying on my system for now. It's clearly the better OS and if Microsoft doesn't change their game soon they're going to be dead in a few years.
Trolling_Farm Posted August 25, 2015 Posted August 25, 2015 XP for everyone! Lol, nah 7 is staying on my system for now. It's clearly the better OS and if Microsoft doesn't change their game soon they're going to be dead in a few years. I love XP to bad support is out the window. I loved the design, actually pretty much everything about it compared to every other Windows OS. I am a big Linux fan, I am currently trying out Elementary OS. It reminds me a lot of mac as its based off the GUI.
Akic Posted September 3, 2015 Posted September 3, 2015 Just as a heads up Win 7 & Win 8 updates have added this "spying" technology to those OS's too. Who says MS never ports newer features to old OS's
procreate Posted September 3, 2015 Posted September 3, 2015 Where did you see that? edit, got home and searched it, and uninstalled those updates.
procreate Posted September 3, 2015 Posted September 3, 2015 Last night I noticed my win7 machine has a plot in San Francisco on the R1 map. Wasn't running any games on it... Ideas?
Zennon Posted September 3, 2015 Posted September 3, 2015 Where did you see that? http://www.ghacks.net/2015/08/28/microsoft-intensifies-data-collection-on-windows-7-and-8-systems/
Netduma Staff Netduma Crossy Posted September 3, 2015 Netduma Staff Posted September 3, 2015 Last night I noticed my win7 machine has a plot in San Francisco on the R1 map. Wasn't running any games on it... Ideas? It just means that it is sending/receiving data to a server there.
abc123 Posted September 3, 2015 Posted September 3, 2015 I mean the government is spying on you...my company is spying on you... Why should microsoft be left in the cold?
procreate Posted September 3, 2015 Posted September 3, 2015 It just means that it is sending/receiving data to a server there. But WHAT (service) is? The computer was fully idle. Shouldn't be doing anything there. Interested to track it down.
JConnor Posted September 3, 2015 Posted September 3, 2015 But WHAT (service) is? The computer was fully idle. Shouldn't be doing anything there. Interested to track it down. My guess is it's just a "keep alive" ping when you are idle to keep MM time to a minimum when you do decide to play a (CoD) game?
procreate Posted September 11, 2015 Posted September 11, 2015 http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/09/microsoft-is-downloading-windows-10-to-pcs-even-if-you-dont-reserve-a-copy/ This is getting a bit ridiculous..
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