{"id":181272,"date":"2016-08-15T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/15\/my-next-computer-is-not-going-to-be-windows-10\/"},"modified":"2016-08-15T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T01:04:00","slug":"my-next-computer-is-not-going-to-be-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/15\/my-next-computer-is-not-going-to-be-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"My Next Computer is not Going to Be Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Microsoft operating system is <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/08\/03\/windows-10-defaults-to-keylogg.html\">a privacy horror show<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">By default, Microsoft gets to see your location, keystrokes and browser history &#8212; and listen to your microphone, and some of that stuff is shared with &#8220;trusted [by Microsoft, not by you] partners.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">You can turn this all off, of course, by digging through screen after screen of &#8220;privacy&#8221; dashboards, navigating the welter of tickboxes that serve the same purposes as all those clean, ration-seeming lines on the craps table: to complexify the proposition so you can&#8217;t figure out if the odds are in your favor.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Oh, and if you&#8217;ve already chosen to use Firefox as your default browser, Microsoft overrides your decision when you &#8220;upgrade&#8221; and switches you to the latest incarnation of the immortal undead monster formerly known as Internet Explorer. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3106863\/microsoft-windows\/cortana-the-spy-in-windows-10.html\">here<\/a>, where they note that you cannot shut the service off except by getting deep into dodgy operating system functions, and it listens to everything that you say.<\/p>\n<p>A ain&#8217;t gonna go Mac though:&nbsp; I hate walled gardens, so it&#8217;s probably some flavor of Linux for me next time around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Microsoft operating system is a privacy horror show: By default, Microsoft gets to see your location, keystrokes and browser history &#8212; and listen to your microphone, and some of that stuff is shared with &#8220;trusted [by Microsoft, not by you] partners.&#8221;You can turn this all off, of course, by digging through screen after &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1060,970,969,1066,989],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computer","category-corruption","category-evil","category-privacy","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}