trader_4
Thu, 06
Apr 2017 16:01:15 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

He mentions hackers getting into a system. Seems that hackers
have gotten into and can get into just about anything that's
connected to the internet. I doubt his 15 year old XP is any
different or that a Win 10 system with AV software is any more
vulnerable. I mentioned that IDK of any browser that's still
supported on XP, you can probably add antivirus software to the
list of things where less and less companies are supporting it
too. I'm sure he'll reply and say that he has something that's
still supported, but the list is rapidly diminishing.

Contrary to what you see in the movies, hacking isn't like that. Just
because you're connected to the internet does not mean that you're
magically hackable. It takes a bit more than that.

The privacy issue, I too have turned off the settings available on
Win 10 to decrease what MSFT has access to. Wonder if he has a
smartphone? Seems to me that Win 10 is no worse than a smartphone
and even on XP, if you use the typical search engines, etc, that
is already sharing a lot of your info, eg what you're viewing,
searching for, etc.

search engines can only share what I've typed into them and my
browser id strings...though. XP doesn't share my private files with
microsoft. Windows 10, will if MS determines they need something for
whatever reason they deem fit.

Linux won't share my private files with anybody else, unless I take
what amounts to stupid steps to force it to do so.

With windows 10, I don't have to do anything for MS to analyze what
I've got on the machine and it send them whatever they want. I'm not
okay with that and I don't understand why you would be.


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