Windows 10: The Great Conspiracy?

[Batu69]

Who’s spying on you?

Spying is usually defined as secretly gaining information about a government, organisation, person(s) etc or to watch secretly, usually for hostile purposes. It’s been going on ever since we decided to take up arms against each other and some now say that the very definition has broadened greatly, to include you, me and everyone else who walks the earth. It’s common knowledge that in countries such as North Korea and the ex Soviet Union, the practice of spying on its citizens is and always has been state sponsored and pretty much accepted as a way of life, like it or not.

 

Let’s not forget the resources that would have been thrown into this kind spying before the Internet came along; phone taps, covert surveillance and 007-style lapel cameras and the like were pretty much de rigueur. Before long, it all became highly sophisticated, we all got connected and made the spies’ job a heck of a lot easier in only a few years, so unless we’ve been living under a rock for the past decade, I don’t really need to repeat the spying stories related to the NSA, GCHQ and others to highlight the far reaching tentacles of the state, but an operating system spying on us is quite another thing altogether. Or is it? And what do they want? And why?

Is Windows 10 the great spy in the sky?

 

Continuing with our Spy vs Spy theme and let’s face it, most conspiracy theories contain an element of farcical spyology in them, there’s a widely held belief that Microsoft and in particular Windows 10, the fancy new OS they released a few months ago, is the single most intrusive and spyworthy operating system yet released in the history of technology.

 

****Author pauses to switch to Windows 10 for added authenticity****

 

Ah, that’s better, now it feels like the real deal typing this on Microsoft spyware, knowing that my movements from the moment I woke up at 0814 (I overslept, sorry) are known to the Illuminati, New World Order, Zionists and maybe even the Moonies and Marmite Munchers too, who knows? And they will also be interested to discover that at 0820 I was enjoying a steaming mug of tea (English Breakfast) whilst reading about Keith Richards’ hallucinatory adventures whilst on tour with The Stones in 1972 and later at 0831, I became fully connected and resumed writing this drivel for the benefit of my spymasters, wherever they may lurk.

 

Later, or possibly simultaneously, I posted some vitally important nonsense on a Buenos Aires expat forum asking which supermarket currently holds stock of plain, Greek style yoghurt, a much sought after commodity here south of the border, without which, life can be very tiresome indeed.

 

Unbeknownst to me of course, my every movement was being tracked by some faceless, bespectacled operative in a windowless office buried deep below a fortress in Fort Meade, Cheltenham or possibly Redmond with the special designation of tracking fluffy kittens, God-loves-you memes and alternative Ratatouille recipes.

 

My next stop and since I simply can’t help myself, was to check my like-count on Facebook for that video I posted only the night before of a squirrel stealing nuts from my next door neighbour’s birdhouse, which coincidentally he had spent nine months and five days constructing in his garden shed whilst hiding from his wife who suspected him of philandering with the cleaner who worked for them on Tuesdays and sometimes Fridays. Imagine my surprise then when I found I’d only received two likes, one of which was my own and the other was from my Mum.

 

Mortified with rage, I set viciously about a person I’d never met who had posted a picture of a singer I’d never even heard of, who can’t even spell his own first name correctly called Kanye West or something like that, suggesting that he should be the next prime minister of Great Britain. You can’t imagine my fury and once I’d put him firmly in his place, I felt so much better, uploaded a picture of the Nespresso I’d just made (thanks George), that elicited zero likes, which put me in a further rage.

 

So I decided then it was maybe time I read that article I’d received yonks ago entitled Windows 10: The New Zionists Revenge, which suggested, amongst other measures, to publicise all my passwords, bank account details and personal browsing history in the event of not joining their cause or signing their online petition, which calls for the immediate withdrawal of the operating system from the market, to be replaced by some operating system no one’s ever heard of called Linux Kenyatta v14.5.

 

It’s a tempting choice indeed and one which my true masters, The New World Order, various lizards and others would be well advised to ignore at their peril. But, and this is a very big but, do I really want to dust off the abacus, commune with penguins, throw my games away and bang my head against the most obscure operating system in the sub-Saharan continent? Or would I be more content to mingle with religious nuts, dossier collectors and spymasters bent on world domination? It was a tough decision in the end and throwing my lot in with the great spy community in the sky seemed absurd on the face of it.

 

But when I realised that the anti-Zionist threat was just a feint, all became clear to me as in some kind of divine intervention. My lords and masters at The World Council already know all my passwords, offshore bank accounts and the porn sites I had not visited. So, throwing caution to the wind, I rejected all thoughts of wacky petitions and penguins and threw myself back into a world which is familiar to me, knowing very well that the interns buried deep below the evil towers of Redmond, Fort Meade and Cheltenham would not miss their fix of me and I’d be only too happy to oblige.

 

Dumb, me? You betcha!

 

Article source

 

[vibranium]

A very naïve article to suggest that Win 10 does not gather personally identifying big data.

[steven36]

24 minutes ago, vibranium said:

A very naïve article to suggest that Win 10 does not gather personally identifying big data.

Yes all opinion  without a sherd of proof  it dont  but there's tons of proof it does posted everywhere else  . Microsoft fanboys  wish we would all just belly up and give in too there spying just make like it dont exist .    companies are the biggest privacy problem today, not governments..

 

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Think about the biggest tech companies going today: Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. These tech titans have more data on you than anyone or anything else out there -- even governments. (Why do you think they are served a near constant stream of warrants for user data?) In most cases, you serve up your data voluntarily, from emails to text messages, photos and documents, and social networking data.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/pgp-co-founder-the-biggest-privacy-issue-today-are-online-ads/

 

Even all these tech companies terms of service  says they  do  it..  so they cant be sued . If it were not in there terms of service  and they didn't do it , no one would sweat it .

 

That's the difference in proprietary vs open source software .   Most proprietary software if you didn't  have to buy it and its so called free.. you pay for it with data harvesting and open source is paid though who ever feels like donating, its free  without many strings attached .

[Holmes]

Ok whats worse then this article hearing the same bullsh**t I have heard from the posts I read in the previous article about windows ten everybody thinks there an expert this article is opinionated your comments are opinionated and this post of mine is opinionated to is to the articles you can quote about windows ten are opinionated to the opinions are like *ssholes everybody has one and they all stink so does this article and its source and every post in this thread so delete it problem solved.  Im not saying microsoft is not collecting data I am saying I am tired of all the conspiracy theory crap.  Use windows ten if you like it or dont use it if you dont like it for god sakes lets talk about something else and stop bringing up the word fanboy jesus marian joseph my eyes and ears are starting to bleed from all the rhetoric.

[spudboy]

12 minutes ago, Holmes said:

Ok whats worse then this article hearing the same bullsh**t I have heard from the posts I read in the previous article about windows ten everybody thinks there an expert this article is opinionated your comments are opinionated and this post of mine is opinionated to is to the articles you can quote about windows ten are opinionated to the opinions are like *ssholes everybody has one and they all stink so does this article and its source and every post in this thread so delete it problem solved.  Im not saying microsoft is not collecting data I am saying I am tired of all the conspiracy theory crap.  Use windows ten if you like it or dont use it if you dont like it for god sakes lets talk about something else and stop bringing up the word fanboy jesus marian joseph my eyes and ears are starting to bleed from all the rhetoric.

 

Same can be said for the posts. Don't like seeing them? Don't read them. Oh, and my eyes are starting to bleed from lack of punctuation.

[steven36]

21 minutes ago, Holmes said:

Ok whats worse then this article hearing the same bullsh**t I have heard from the posts I read in the previous article about windows ten everybody thinks there an expert this article is opinionated your comments are opinionated and this post of mine is opinionated to is to the articles you can quote about windows ten are opinionated to the opinions are like *ssholes

 When  places write it in there toss ...so they cant be sued ..this is the very reason  i stopped using Google services since 2011 .. and you see it all up in you're  wire shark or other ip sniffers them calling home from testing  that's proof of concept  . Bashing  someone because there a fanboy of something  and calling people conspiracy theorist that have proof is just trolling .a person because there concerned  about  privacy because  they use a certain something  they want  to sell the idea. to the whole world based on there own opinion . I dont fall for the  you say its OK so its OK  for me theory . I'm  picky about what i install and use . I need proof  of why i should use it  or not use it.

[vibranium]

8 minutes ago, spudboy said:

 

Same can be said for the posts. Don't like seeing them? Don't read them. Oh, and my eyes are starting to bleed from lack of punctuation.

 

That's exactly what I thought too.

[Reefa]

4 minutes ago, vibranium said:

Same can be said for the posts. Don't like seeing them? Don't read them. Oh, and my eyes are starting to bleed from lack of punctuation.

 

So why are you reading or even for that matter quoting?

[Holmes]

You mean same can be said for my posts (am I right or wrong).  As for my punctuation I have explained this not doing it again use the forums search function.  There you go with the word fanboy again and if the author of the source didnt post the article and posted something else like I dont know new features they would like to see in windows ten in the future that would be nice to read.  I think users would enjoy reading and seeing posts better in this forum if the forum wasnt stacked to the brim with windows ten f*ck this windows ten f*ck that hate post's.  This forum is going to lose users in the future if articles like this continue I visit MDL my digital life forums and havent noticed any posts like the ones in this forum (hardly any negativity the amount of mature users is double ten times as many help post's).  I agree with f3dupsk1nup why are you reading or quoting if the same can be said for the post's if Im wrong with the first sentence.  Im not going to stop visiting these forums and move to MDL my digital life I love this forum for the programs if offers the frontpage news the amazing programmers on here and the articles that are worth reading.  As for trolling trolls have the personality that belongs to the dark tetrad and enjoy machiavellianism narcissism psychopathy and sadism.  I havent seen alot of users like that on these forums I have seen some.

[steven36]

20 minutes ago, Holmes said:

I visit MDL my digital life forums and havent noticed any posts like the ones in this forum (hardly any negativity the amount of mature users is quadruple ten times as many help post's).

This forum and MSDL are not the same.. I come here to learn about all sorts of things  and get updates  .. I dont  visit MSDL much because I use legit windows  and could care less if I'm on my windows machine or my Linux machine .

 

And i can call the person  who wrote this article a fanboy if  i wish , he called all of us who cares about privacy .. conspiracy theorist . that's freedom of speech  I dont care  that the post was posted . But dont expect  us privacy  concerned members not to exercise  our opinion .

 

As far as  them losing members  i dont see that  happening  for every 1 leaves 4 more joins. 

 

[Holmes]

They are the same almost and your insinuating that users that visit mdl forums use illegal windows and some may not all.  I can call him a fanboy if he calls us conspiracy theorists I forgot two wrongs make a right *facepalm*.  I mention losing users because I dont want this forum losing good users i wish all the trolls left that wont happen and why is idea of this forum losing users funny.

[steven36]

12 minutes ago, Holmes said:

They are the same

No there not , no 2 forums are  the same .  none have the same rules   the forum  i use to be at most of time  had rules about even talking about other forums . You could  be banned just by talking about  them.   Each forum  I visit I  have to go by there own rules . not @Holmes  and other members  as they see fit rules. If  members  made the rules then the forum really would be dead. Were lucky we have such good Admins , Mods and staff  here.  Most forums  would not put up with what they do here .

[Holmes]

Im talking about content and not holmes as they see fit rules what?  Please explain that didnt make sense.

[steven36]

7 minutes ago, Holmes said:

Im talking about content and not holmes as they see fit rules what?  Please explain that didnt make sense.

You say the content is the same but  just a minute ago you said you dont see the post here you see at  the other site  posted there  . the other site is a windows  forum  this is a News /Software update forum we post all news here . Not just good news.. I dont post  to be popular if i wanted  to be id be still uploading and testing software for the masses. I just post here to help out is all  I do it for free .

[Holmes]

Content meaning technology talk and posts about windows ten help posts sh*t like that.  Users dont upload and test software for users to be popular who said anything about popularity I have seen you post one or two times helping users out you mentioned before you dont really help out because you helped out in forums before and your done doing that.  You seem to have a obsession with yourself with these sticking tongue out emoicons and additional proof with your self obsession is you mentioning you said you have photographic memory with a emoicon tongue sticking out self obsession is narcissism and thats part of the dark tetrad and thats a troll trait you have the personality of a troll.

[Reefa]

13 minutes ago, steven36 said:

I dont post  to be popular if i wanted  to be id be still uploading and testing software for the masses. I just post here to help out is all  I do it for free .

 

You no it mate...

[DKT27]

Relax guys and stop the name calling.

 

Everyone is entitled to their opinion. The author, you, me, everyone. But please keep it constructive.

 

Also, its meaningless to make opponents based on some people's opinions whether for any article or for any posts on the forums.

[steven36]

54 minutes ago, DKT27 said:

Relax guys and stop the name calling.

 

Everyone is entitled to their opinion. The author, you, me, everyone. But please keep it constructive.

 

Also, its meaningless to make opponents based on some people's opinions whether for any article or for any posts on the forums.

Why is he attacking me personally?  I was not even talking about him I was talking about the author of this Marc Thomas    ..  Just because he has OCD  dont give him the right to talk me like a dog,  even though he does censor all his cuss words out you still tell know what he means.  He gets really upset  at nothing.

 

People at the source site didn't like the post ether

 

[Holmes]

No I just dont like narcissism and mostly trolls in general (if you sticking the tongue out emoicons arent you trying to be self obsessed and your just trying to be goofy my bad) and I abhor seeing articles about windows ten now I do I didnt mind them before.  A part of my outburst was hypersensitivity narcissism or self obsession is a pet peeve of mine I abhor it.  I perceive what you were doing as being self obsessed if Im wrong my bad.

[steven36]

18 minutes ago, Holmes said:

No I just dont like narcissism and mostly trolls in general (if you sticking the tongue out emoicons arent you trying to be self obsessed and your just trying to be goofy my bad) and I abhor seeing articles about windows ten now I do I didnt mind them before.  A part of my outburst was hypersensitivity narcissism or self obsession is a pet peeve of mine I abhor it.  I perceive what you were doing as being self obsessed if Im wrong my bad.

You still attacking me because I dont use windows 10 anymore ?  I dont just post about windows 10   I dont post any pro windows 10  post no  because I'm not going to tell you to use something I want use . But I dont care  if you use it.  There's  no excuse  for attacking  me . Im not the only person who dont like windows 10 but Im one the few  who post the other side the story on  here .  Both sides  needs told .

[vibranium]

7 hours ago, F3dupsk1Nup said:

 

So why are you reading or even for that matter quoting?

 

Because it has become a personal attack. If you observe this and past conduct you would see a pattern.

[dezsez]

Best thing to do is Scrap your Router,Cut the phone landline,crush your mobile phones,Find a nice cosy cave to live in,Buy some Missiles to shoot down Spy Satellites and Spy Drones and then we MIGHT not get spied on

[Holmes]

I dont care if you dont use windows ten now I dont care who dont use it.  If you use it good if you dont ok.  My point is these articles are beating a dead horse and as for the source I think its funny I know hes wrong its funny.  I think both sises have been told now they were months ago.  How many times do we have to hear both sides being told.

[spudboy]

18 hours ago, F3dupsk1Nup said:

 

So why are you reading or even for that matter quoting?

 

You missed my point. No need to write out an explanation, it's not that important.

 

18 hours ago, Holmes said:

You mean same can be said for my posts (am I right or wrong).  As for my punctuation I have explained this not doing it again use the forums search function.

 

No, I mean the same can be said for ANY post. For example, if you don't like the Win10 conspiracy posts, simply ignore/don't read them. About search, do you really think someone is going to search for "Why does Holmes not use proper punctuation"? Please do tell which search terms lead me to your explanation & I will read it.

[Holmes]

That is true.  As for my punctuation The post im talking about says I have ocd a rare form of ocd and it causes me to type the way I do.  If someone sees my post's and wanted to know why I post the way I do and thought let me do a search maybe hes explained in a post and I dont have to ask him thats what I would do if I had a question about someone and didnt want to ask them.