philo news May 2017 19:40:24 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

On 05/09/2017 02:21 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 9 May 2017 11:31:02 -0500, philo
wrote:

On 05/09/2017 11:22 AM, trader_4 wrote:
On Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 12:15:44 PM UTC-4, philo wrote:
OK, here is one you probably know more about than I do:


I was at a friend's house and she mentioned she had a (male)
friend look at her slow-running computer. He said "Edge" had
been taken over by GCHQ. He then advised her to use Chrome
instead.

My guess is that he read this article (or one similar)

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_te...2/nsa_and_gchq
_have_been_using_anti_virus_software_to_do_surveil lance.html



Assuming the article is correct, from what I see, it doesn't
support the advice given, ie it says nothing about Edge vs
Chrome or that whatever the GHCQ and similar are allegedly
doing would result in noticeably slowing down your PC. In
fact, it would seem that slowing the PC down would be
counterproductive from their standpoint.





I will chalk it up to the guy being a paranoid pot smoker.
When I asked him what evidence he had, he just got upset.

That said, she has let other people use her computer so I
thought deleting the entire "Edge" profile a good idea.
If it had any of her stored pass words there, I confirmed that
she knew them all before I did it.

Edge is a pretty useless "work in progress" - barely a Beta level
release.




I only have been using Win10 as of late simply to gain
familiarity.


I have not used Edge enough to form a real opinion


You might be using it more often than you realize. See traders
post about printing a PDF file.


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