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Perhaps the real lesson to be learned is do not store your data in a place that you have no control over it.
by jmercouris 5y ago
Perhaps the real lesson to be learned is do not store your data in a place that you have no control over it.
- pintxo 5y agoMost people probably had never control over their local desktop system.
- swiley 5y agoPre Windows 10 they had way more control than they do with phones. Microsoft actually respected user intentions to some degree by comparison.
- goldenkey 5y agoWindows 10 telemetry and whatnot can all be turned off. It's still the desktop OS it always was, just with some extra crapola (Cortana) that iOS millennials expect. At least Windows isn't sending a hash of every file I open to their servers like Apple is...
- toast0 5y agoI think that's not every file, but every executable, right? And doesn't Microsoft do that and call it SmartScreen?
- swiley 5y agoI have a computer science degree, and have gone through periods where I've maintained custom Linux distros built from scratch for myself. I'm not able to keep up with all of the newly discovered (and subsequently disabled) methods for disabling all of the online services in windows 10. I didn't mention OSX because I didn't want to be overly verbose but yeah any non-free OS at this point has pretty much no respect at all for privacy or user freedom.
- goldenkey 5y agoI have a master degree in CS. There's really not much of a learning curve to disabling telemetry on Windows or OSX. It requires some labor, but so does any kind of technological upkeep.
- forgingahead 5y agoAt least Windows isn't sending a hash of every file I open to their servers like Apple is. Wait, what is Apple doing? Which Apple OS is sending a hash of every file that is opened? And can this be disabled?
- ValentineC 5y agoIt's because of app notarisation. Here's one of the writeups on it: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/catalina-executables.html https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/catalina-executables.htm...
- _jal 5y agoIt is a hash of executables, not files. It does include shell scripts. The intent seems to be malware prevention, but yes, the implementation is terrible from a privacy perspective. Far better would be a local bloom filter or similar. But the bit about Windows being more respectful of privacy is not correct, or at least substantially more complicated. For instance, if you run 'full' telemetry, Microsoft can, in fact, pull your documents from your machine and execute things on it remotely, something I've seen no indication Apple does. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wintp-insider_security-insiderplat_pc/windows-10-telemetry-some-questions-and-how-does/69a49191-74ee-4676-8169-6d9e46b5e56 https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wi...
- pintxo 5y agoIt's more that a lot of people seem to have zero mental model about how the file system in their computer works (files, folders, paths, ...). Let alone their computer as a whole.
- ascagnel_ 5y agoMore accurately: do not store your data in a proprietary format. The issue isn't that the app stopped working, the issue is that the app changed from a single-purchase to a subscription model, and the last version of the single-purchase app is no longer supported. If the data was freely accessible, you could at least pull it out and migrate to an app with a more user-friendly business model.
- ihuman 5y agoBased on the image at the end of the page, it looks like the app does allow you to export the data in a non-propriety format. The problem was that the app couldn't launch, so the author couldn't export the data.