Comment Beware Windows 10! (Score 1) 515
I have some small technical details about how Windows 10 is spying on users. I posted it on Reddit but it's already being downvoted by paid Microsoft employees I think. I'll just copy and paste here:
I had something strange happen when I downgraded to Windows 7 in an unsupported way. After trying Windows 10 with a clean install and deciding that it wasn't for me, I undeleted my Windows 7 boot partition and simply deleted the Windows 10 files and copied over my files from Windows.old.
All of my file permissions for my User folder had been changed to allow access for 'unknown user'. After some digging in the settings I found that this matched an account named S-1-15-2-1.
Some quick Googling told me that this was a well known account for the Windows Store: http://answers.microsoft.com/e...
"dax1792 replied on March 14, 2013 S-1-15-2-1 appears to be a new Well-Known SID which is used by Windows 8 with Windows Store Applications. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-u...
Windows 7 doesn't know anything about this, so it's being shown as unknown. This may be an oversight by Microsoft in the way they have deployed Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 7."
So they really aren't kidding about what's spelled out in the user agreement about sharing your personal files! I'm sure that that went directly to the NSA.
We just learned that AT&T has been working hand in hand with the NSA. That they've been working with and manipulating these big corporations. I'm sure that that's how AT&T was fast-tracked for this recent DirectTV acquisition.
Our government has been completely taken over by criminals at this point and Microsoft is surely working with them.