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Is Windows really spyware in the way that people think?
Nobody actually has any evidence that the backdoors exist. I'm not denying that it's possible, but it's ultimately just a belief.
I think what we have is:
arguments for the idea that windows is spying on it's users
>It's proprietary, we can't really know what functionality is potentially hidden in it
>Known to have some sort of telemetry. We don't know what it's actually sending, but it's sending something
>US based company, and US is notorious for it's surveillance. They could require microsoft to put in backdoors and share them with their allies
arguments against
>No actual evidence of spying. There isn't at least a known case where it was used against anyone
>Microsoft has customers all over the world that trust them, even foreign goverments. There would be a massive backlash and lawsuits if it was found out that western governments can use it to spy on everyone freely
>Nation state actors still look for vulnerabilities that they can exploit to hack into peoples windows systems
At least I don't believe that it's doing something crazy like sending all your files and activity to microsoft. That would be easy to notice as a huge amount of network traffic.
I'm just wondering if all the theories about windows spying really make sense. It honestly sometimes feels like freetards, who believe that everything proprietary starting from as low as device drivers is an evil plot to spy on them, are just paranoid schizos.
If you use microsofts online services like onedrive then it's pretty obvious that whatever you put there goes to their servers, but there's little evidence that they can get your files from your own hard drive.
Nobody actually has any evidence that the backdoors exist. I'm not denying that it's possible, but it's ultimately just a belief.
I think what we have is:
arguments for the idea that windows is spying on it's users
>It's proprietary, we can't really know what functionality is potentially hidden in it
>Known to have some sort of telemetry. We don't know what it's actually sending, but it's sending something
>US based company, and US is notorious for it's surveillance. They could require microsoft to put in backdoors and share them with their allies
arguments against
>No actual evidence of spying. There isn't at least a known case where it was used against anyone
>Microsoft has customers all over the world that trust them, even foreign goverments. There would be a massive backlash and lawsuits if it was found out that western governments can use it to spy on everyone freely
>Nation state actors still look for vulnerabilities that they can exploit to hack into peoples windows systems
At least I don't believe that it's doing something crazy like sending all your files and activity to microsoft. That would be easy to notice as a huge amount of network traffic.
I'm just wondering if all the theories about windows spying really make sense. It honestly sometimes feels like freetards, who believe that everything proprietary starting from as low as device drivers is an evil plot to spy on them, are just paranoid schizos.
If you use microsofts online services like onedrive then it's pretty obvious that whatever you put there goes to their servers, but there's little evidence that they can get your files from your own hard drive.
