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There is no keylogger in the RTM. Never has been. There was invasive functionality in the alpha, but they were pretty upfront about that. Right now they only s

• PeCaN 10y ago
  That's just arguing semantics. Anything that sends keystrokes to a remote server gets labelled ‘keylogger’ by me, regardless of whether Microsoft is getting it or a random hacker in $FOREIGN_COUNTRY. And the rather invasive ‘keyboard analytics’ wasn't just in the alpha.¹ ² ³ ⁴ At least you can turn it off easily enough. Still makes me a bit miffed that it's on by default. -- 1. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2974057/windows/how-to-turn-off-windows-10s-keylogger-yes-it-still-has-one.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/2974057/windows/how-to-turn-o... 2. https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/windows10-keylogger-security.html https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/windows10-keylogger-securi... 3. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/windows-10-keylogger-can-track-everything-you-type-you-can-turn-it-off-1519677 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/windows-10-keylogger-can-track-ever... 4. https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/31rxsv/disable_keylogger_windows_10/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/31rxsv/disable_k...
  • viraptor 10y ago
    Semantics are important in this case. Otherwise any web browser is a keylogger by your definition.