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How the heck did you manage to see my tax returns? Does the privacy policy for these features indicate that you can send over the content of these documents, b
by 2bitencryption 10y ago
How the heck did you manage to see my tax returns? Does the privacy policy for these features indicate that you can send over the content of these documents, beyond simply the metadata -- in fact, where does it even say the metadata is sent?
How did you see my online spending habits? Surely those were done over an encrypted connection online, and probably not to any of the services my OS manufacturer has partnered with. If anything, that data-in-motion is the most secure data there is.
I'm so confused how this notion is so prevalent on HN.
- kardos 10y agoThe windows 10 "telemetry" is not a man-in-the-middle attack, it's a compromised endpoint. You don't know what's in the telemetry -- it's encrypted, and there's no (known) mechanism for you, the owner of the computer, to inspect it. It /could/ include what Microsoft claims it does, or it could include all of the above and more. I'm so confused why anyone would want to normalize the idea of backdoored computers that let Microsoft collect whatever data they want from your on a routine basis. Normally we consider this kind of thing spyware or malware and try to get rid of it stat, why does Microsoft get a pass?