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Wow that's insane! And I'm glad you're an awesome parent. You should post a anonymised screenshot of that email sometime if you can, this is pretty ridiculous.

kstrauser 11y ago
Ask and ye shall receive: http://imgur.com/eeBtcIw http://imgur.com/eeBtcIw Bear in mind that it's nearly empty because we'd only just recently upgraded to Windows 10, but note that it has an entry for "Latest searches". Wouldn't that be one hell of a way for a kid to come out of the closet to his parents, or for someone to find out their daughter's pregnant? Consider that this data is linked to each kid's email address. When this database is hacked, won't that be an interesting week in all the local schools as everyone learns what their peers are really doing?
- kefka 11y ago
  No. The schools provide laptops to the kids. And then make them "kid accounts". Then the school process all of those reports and punishes based on them... or sells them to advertising firms.
  - kstrauser 11y ago
    You know, a couple of years ago I would have written that off as paranoid ranting.
    - kefka 11y ago
      No, I think it still is paranoid. It's just now provably true as well. I'm not entirely sure how much I believe the "MS sniffs your keyboard every half hour". However, with that kid-sniffer (search this page for imgur); that's built in. That terrifies me. And I'm thinking of LGBT, other religions, TOR, abortions and women's health, medical searches, domestic abuse searches, and more. And the allegations that the torrent sites are levying are also insane too. I'm glad I've been working on Ubuntu and FreeBSD for the last 12 years. Unfortunately, I'm getting a nice writeup to the 2 directors I've passed an Intel Compute Stick to with Win10, alerting them of the situation.
      - ultramancool 11y ago
        What's really surprised me here is that I haven't seen Microsoft comment on any of the privacy concerns here at all. They haven't even said they're going to fix the stuff you can't disable ( see http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-when-told-not-to-windows-10-just-cant-stop-talking-to-microsoft/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-w... ). I'm worried that they're just going to ignore problems like this and in a few years, there will be no choice but to run this if you want to be able to run the latest versions of other software.
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- yellowapple 11y ago
  Only played New Vegas for 8 minutes? Please. This is obviously a fake. :)
  - kstrauser 11y ago
    Well, that one night. He's logged another 19 hours so far today.
    - yellowapple 11y ago
      Ah. Well that's more like it, then :)

kstrauser 11y ago

Ask and ye shall receive: http://imgur.com/eeBtcIw http://imgur.com/eeBtcIw Bear in mind that it's nearly empty because we'd only just recently upgraded to Windows 10, but note that it has an entry for "Latest searches". Wouldn't that be one hell of a way for a kid to come out of the closet to his parents, or for someone to find out their daughter's pregnant? Consider that this data is linked to each kid's email address. When this database is hacked, won't that be an interesting week in all the local schools as everyone learns what their peers are really doing?

kefka 11y ago
No. The schools provide laptops to the kids. And then make them "kid accounts". Then the school process all of those reports and punishes based on them... or sells them to advertising firms.
- kstrauser 11y ago
  You know, a couple of years ago I would have written that off as paranoid ranting.
  - kefka 11y ago
    No, I think it still is paranoid. It's just now provably true as well. I'm not entirely sure how much I believe the "MS sniffs your keyboard every half hour". However, with that kid-sniffer (search this page for imgur); that's built in. That terrifies me. And I'm thinking of LGBT, other religions, TOR, abortions and women's health, medical searches, domestic abuse searches, and more. And the allegations that the torrent sites are levying are also insane too. I'm glad I've been working on Ubuntu and FreeBSD for the last 12 years. Unfortunately, I'm getting a nice writeup to the 2 directors I've passed an Intel Compute Stick to with Win10, alerting them of the situation.
    - ultramancool 11y ago
      What's really surprised me here is that I haven't seen Microsoft comment on any of the privacy concerns here at all. They haven't even said they're going to fix the stuff you can't disable ( see http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-when-told-not-to-windows-10-just-cant-stop-talking-to-microsoft/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-w... ). I'm worried that they're just going to ignore problems like this and in a few years, there will be no choice but to run this if you want to be able to run the latest versions of other software.
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yellowapple 11y ago
Only played New Vegas for 8 minutes? Please. This is obviously a fake. :)
- kstrauser 11y ago
  Well, that one night. He's logged another 19 hours so far today.
  - yellowapple 11y ago
    Ah. Well that's more like it, then :)