Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] IceCat 45.7.0 release

[awakeyet]

I would never trust microsoft, or apple. those are my thoughts on this. i have seen a video of a russian man decode data that was being sent from his compuer and it was actually screenshots of his desktop. social security numbers, anything was prey. very sad.


15. Mar 2017 22:38 by address@hidden:

> On Wednesday, March 15, 2017 19:23:24 Gary wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 15, 2017, Ivan Zaigralin wrote:
> > > Here you go, pal. Section 7.b. You see where it says "computer
> > > information"?
> >
> > 7b states: "Microsoft may use the computer information, accelerator
> > information, search suggestions information, error reports, and Malware
> > reports to improve our software and services. We may also share it with
> > others, such as hardware and software vendors. They may use the information
> > to improve how their products run with Microsoft software."
> >
> > But in 7a they also point out that "in some cases, you may switch off these
> > features or not use them." Of course, if I were concerned I would turn
> > these features off then block outbound connections to Microsoft, use an
> > offline update utility like WSUSoffline, and not use Internet Explorer or
> > other web services.
>
> You can't turn them off. In some cases you can, which means absolutely 
> nothing, since in other cases you cannot. Which other cases? All the ones you 
> don't know about because they don't have to tell you jack.
> > They *do* have the *capability* to get absolutely any information from your
> > > computer, like real-time screenshots, keystrokes, or webcam feed. ... that
> > > is, if you ever ever ever dectect the leak.
> >
> > [citation needed]
>
> Please do not take this the wrong way, but if you need a citation for this, 
> then you must be missing on some really basic understanding of how a modern 
> computer works. In short, micro$soft runs a mystery program on your pc, and it 
> runs with the highest privelege afforded by your hardware (CPU, etc.). No one 
> even *knows* what it does, let alone able to fully control it, besides 
> micro$oft. Absolutely anything you can direct your computer to do from within 
> window$, micro$oft can do remotely, surreptuously, and *trivially* in the 
> technical sense. I would read on wikipedia about software, and then free 
> software, and hopefully all of this will become obvious.