US Government behind Windows 10 upgrade

[vt_shooter]

After Snowden defected to Russia, the Russians began using manual typewriters for their top secret stuff.

 

[venomballistics]

https://www.debian.org/
theres workarounds.

 

[BC38]

Think about it. If there are just 100 million people who use the internet and they average just 1 hour a day that is 100million hours of traffic a day and I think that is conservative. If a program like carnivore is checking the traffic and kicks out 0.10% or 1/1000 of that you have 100,000 hours a day, 7 days a week or 700,000 hr per weak. If the government has workers checking this data and they are actually putting in a meaningful 35 hours a week it would take 20,000 people ever week. Give them 5 weeks off combined vacation and sick leave and holidays and you need about an extra 10% or 22,000 people plus another 10% to supervise them for 24,200 to read all that data and decide needs to be tagged. Thats just to sort it out. Then you would need just as many to try to figure out what to catalog and store it. Near 50.000 people. Thats if the government was anywhere near efficient. They couldn't even manage to get the health care bill completely read. Its called informational overload.

It would be like me having 10,000 S&W revolvers and 10 million rounds and trying to decide what I was going to take to the range.

Excellent example.

CAN organizations with huge resources - like the government - track you and everything you do and everywhere you go on the net? Sure. ARE THEY? No way. Not us average schlubs anyway. Unless you have done something really extraordinary to arouse their interest, they aren't going to devote the resources to even try.

Believing that Big Brother is watching your every move requires equally a heavy doses of 1) paranoia 2) an exaggerated sense of how important you are, and 3) no concept of the enormity of the data traffic there is on the internet...

 

[G.T. Smith]

I'm afeared to say anything about this at all.
peace,
gordon

 

[4011]

I was looking in the setting part the other day. Came to a part this can only be changed by the system administrator. Huh! Oh my son is my system administrator. He'll be over tomorrow to cleans some trash out of the IPad. He has tools that can look inside what I deleted. Soooo! Cars and guns is it for me!!

 

[williamlayton]

Personally, at my age, I wish there was a 800 number to call to find out what I am expected to be doing next.
Memory is just a theory.
Blessings

 

[Mickey D]

I'm having my casting lead cold rolled into foil for my new hat.

 

[quneur]

Forget the software; they put tracers in the popcorn.

 

[DWFAN]

IN NOMINE Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen

Having been an alter boy in my youth I know what that means. I am no longer an alter boy.

DW

 

[Old TexMex]

Excellent example.

CAN organizations with huge resources - like the government - track you and everything you do and everywhere you go on the net? Sure. ARE THEY? No way. Not us average schlubs anyway. Unless you have done something really extraordinary to arouse their interest, they aren't going to devote the resources to even try.

Believing that Big Brother is watching your every move requires equally a heavy doses of 1) paranoia 2) an exaggerated sense of how important you are, and 3) no concept of the enormity of the data traffic there is on the internet...

Exactly! They couldn't care less about you.

And that is exactly why all the hubbub about some kid snitching about it happened. And why google, yahoo et al are providing backdoors for investigators. Since it isn't being done, anyone who thinks it is must be paranoid, ignorant and grandiose.
But if one terrorist sends one odd email to someone else....they catch him, right?
Ignorance is bliss.

 

[Big Stick]

I always get a good chuckle reading gummint conspiracy threads on Facecrack. Usually posted by idiots that have installed the Facecrack app on their device, which gives Mark Zuckerberg access to anything he wants on your phone......

The NSA wishes they wouldn't have bet the farm on MySpace......

 

[shouldazagged]

I am pretty sure those colonoscopy activities are still illegal in the state of Texas.

Well, except in some of the more remote districts.

Funny this should come up, I'm offering reduced initiation fees to join the Brotherhood Of The Foil Fedora (BOTFF). Only $200, payable in unmarked small bills.

 

[Old TexMex]

Well, except in some of the more remote districts.

Funny this should come up, I'm offering reduced initiation fees to join the Brotherhood Of The Foil Fedora (BOTFF). Only $200, payable in unmarked small bills.

Sign me up, I'll use PayPal
Oh wait, Keith Alexander said they monitor that....

(you do know who Keith Alexander is, right?)

 

[SouthernGirl]

While I am not worried about the government watching what I do online,
I do worry about that last guy I dated. He openly admitted to hacking my cell so he could track my activities........

 

[e3mrk]

Windows 10 does watch what You are doing and most likely sends the information to Someone.
My Son Who works with Computers as part of His job as a Engineer tells Me not to put it on My Computer until He can remove all the Spyware that is in Windows 10. It took Him about a Hour to get it off of His Computer.

This site can explain it better than I can. (TechWorm)

http://www.techworm.net/2014/10/microsofts-windows-10-permission-watch-every-move.html

 

[bushmaster1313]

It used to be that you could take the battery out of your phone or blackberry.

The Apple smart phone is never really off

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

While I am not worried about the government watching what I do online,
I do worry about that last guy I dated. He openly admitted to hacking my cell so he could track my activities........

iPhone has an App Find My Friends.

I can track my wife's location but never do. What can be very useful is sending me a text via Location Alerts. When the wife leaves work I'll get a text. Good heads up to get all the gun cleaning mess off the kitchen table. Pugsters is cool, she won't rat me out.

 

[BAM-BAM]

If you just watch the news you know............. government employees are too busy watching porn on their office computers.... to bother watching you!



Besides many of us are so old that the term "high speed operator" .... is applied to the the guys who can still walk to their mailboxes and can still "hump" "two bags" of groceries from the garage at the same time*...........

That said; by her posts "SouthernGirl"..... might be the exception........as she is the only one around here who seems to still be "dating"**.......... making her........

"The most interesting "Girl" on our Forum"


LOL

*Looking at TTSH's avatar as I wrote this.........I may be blind TTSH but revenge is a dish best served cold.......

** had to look that up....my two teenage boys .... "hang out"

 

[Mainsail]

The only thing she'll hear on the internet is what the government wants her to hear. Thus, if she heard on the internet Win10 was designed to track us all, then why does the government want us to believe it is tracking us? It probably wants us to believe we're being tracked so we'll clean up our act and not do bad internet stuff, and because it doesn't have the ability to track that much volume. If we think we're being tracked, we'll be on our best behavior as though we were being tracked, thus saving the government (or new world order) from the necessity of tracking us, which it has realized is hopelessly impossible. See?

 

[jackvs1]

Yeah, and the USA never landed a person on the moon and Oswald didn't assassinate Kennedy.