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Some of the torrent sites expressed some paranoia over their perceived data collection habits of Windows 10, so they were supposed to "block" clients using it. I don't know if that ever happened.Someone I work with mentioned to me that he heard to avoid windows 10 when torrenting and that MS watches the torrents.. any truth to this?
I don't know about torrenting but I read an article a few years ago that claimed Microsoft helps law enforcement capture pedos by identifying known bad media files. How can Microsoft do that if there is no spying going on?
I've also read an article that claimed AV companies audit your PC while they are checking for viruses too.
<shrug>
Yes. Microsoft opened up an entire department to watch the 110,000,000 computers running Windows 10 because they care about what you download and the methods you use to download whatever you are downloading.
Besides, if you aren't using a proxy/vpn you are doing it wrong in the first place anyways.
Some of the torrent sites expressed some paranoia over their perceived data collection habits of Windows 10, so they were supposed to "block" clients using it. I don't know if that ever happened.
I fking knew it! .. all stupid jokes aside.. it is something I read and others have also read apparently.. and of course VPN is used. I just asked a simple question and would appreciate a real answer. If there is any issues with windows 10 and torrents I would like to know is all.
That is something I read also. I never know what to believe which is why I ask the forum and wait for someone to provide useful feedback. The smart ass comments are always a given lol.
Microsoft and the gubermint track a lot more than people think they do, but care a lot less about what it is you are actually doing.
To be fair, your username and question go together so well.
Sorry. It just feels like this subforum has completely gone to shit with tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy nuts, so when questions are brought up like this it makes me think its just flaimbait. Microsoft does not track your torrenting.
I just love when other believe everything the companies say because they are so concerned about your needs and requirements...
Fair enough. But how are anonymous people on the Internet and blogs looking for clicks to generate ad revenue any better?
They're not, honestly. I had thought of this on my own (I've never seen an article talking about it).
There was a post several above that pointed out the obvious and that I've pointed out to you before in other threads. Microsoft is not being totally transparent about what's in the telemetry data. I don't mean their touchy-feely marketing spin of "just stuff to make the OS better." I mean real, transparent data. Ports, connection frequencies, descriptions of the packets and their payloads. *REAL* data.
Until they do that we're going to continue seeing "paranoid" concern over things and rightly so. Microsoft *already* has boilerplate language in the mandatory EULA for Windows 10 that states that they will "comply with law enforcement" when it comes to turning over your data.
Why does MS need to scan the contents of my OneDrive, any content uploaded, to provide me with a better service, which i do not even want? Opt in and Opt out, but when i Opt out, i truly mean opt out.. no "sort of opting out but not really" stuff.
You make valid points but time and time again it isbeing shown these companies can not keep our data safe and are using it to profit...you don't give away a free OS unless you plan to make money from something with in it..
you don't give away a free OS unless you plan to make money from something with in it..
Desktop Linux is free. And that's because of the goodness of the hearts of some people, so some would say.
but I also get the source to Linux. Let's see Microsoft do the same before you start going on with false equivalency.
Linux is used in a lot of instances where you don't get source code. Check out IBM's use of it for Netezza for instance.
Not true. They use RHEL under the hood (Netezza just sits on top of Linux) and Red Hat supplies all of their sources for Linux on their FTP.
Why does MS need to scan the contents of my OneDrive, any content uploaded, to provide me with a better service, which i do not even want?
- if you don't do anything illegal, why do you care
Why ‘I Have Nothing to Hide’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance
If you think privacy is unimportant for you because you have nothing to hide, you might as well say free speech is unimportant for you because you have nothing useful to say.
As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth." --Richard Posner, federal judge —
By the way take the blinds off your windows as well so everyone can see in your house and every room, i mean if your not doing anything illegal, everyone should be able to see what your doing....
Windows 10 also enables the hidden camera built into every monitor since 2003 so they can watch you touch yourself.
Like virtually all revolutionary technology that humans have created, we are now living in a time where we beginning to see and feel the negative and unintended consequences of the Information Age. We've built billions of computing devices connected in real time storing limitless bytes of data being used by ever most sophisticated algorithms. Personal data has always been a part of that but as the technology has advanced it's become easier and easier to acquire personal information without direct consent.
Truth. Rent-A-Center has been doing this with their rental PCs before it was even fashionable to do so.
dont think they're going to track everything you do inc. torrenting.. just turn everything off