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If your OS installation is bound to an account, and this account is blocked for some reason (which is not too hard to imagine, since on HN there is a post about

by riidom 5y ago

If your OS installation is bound to an account, and this account is blocked for some reason (which is not too hard to imagine, since on HN there is a post about such things happening twice a week) - what may be the consequences of this?

johnny22 5y ago
I've been totally ok with folks getting booted from twitter/social media sites for various reasons. But access to fundamental resources like your own computer or primary email address is a different story. The rules need to be much more stringent there You shouldn't lose your gmail account for being an asshole on youtube, and one shouldn't lose their access to their local computer even for commiting fraud on the MS app store (whatever it's called) One should be able to get banned from gmail if you really break the rules of course, but great care needs to be taken, and the same care (and even more) to make sure you don't lose access to your own computer.
chrisseaton 5y ago
> what may be the consequences of this? Need to get a new computer? Doesn't seem the end of the world for such an unlikely act.
- akoncius 5y ago
  so.. in that case it means computer belings to MS even if I paid full price?
- userbinator 5y ago
  Imagine that all your files have been helpfully encrypted --- for your security, of course --- with a key that is bound to that account you can no longer use. I'm not sure if this is possible or the default now on Windows, but it's common for mobile devices.
  - chrisseaton 5y ago
    You've got backups. Right? And Microsoft already controls all your software if you're running Windows. It could already delete your files if they wanted to.
    - nicoburns 5y ago
      But why put yourself in a position where you may need use them if you gain no benefit from it?
      - chrisseaton 5y ago
        If the original commenter didn't want to use Windows anyway, then they've not lost anything. Presumably they did want to use Windows, and are not because of this issue, so they have lost some benefit they originally wanted, and gained nothing because their system was already controlled by MS. Hence it's pointless.
- stirfish 5y ago
  How would that help? Your account is banned.

by riidom 5y ago

johnny22 5y ago

I've been totally ok with folks getting booted from twitter/social media sites for various reasons. But access to fundamental resources like your own computer or primary email address is a different story. The rules need to be much more stringent there You shouldn't lose your gmail account for being an asshole on youtube, and one shouldn't lose their access to their local computer even for commiting fraud on the MS app store (whatever it's called) One should be able to get banned from gmail if you really break the rules of course, but great care needs to be taken, and the same care (and even more) to make sure you don't lose access to your own computer.

chrisseaton 5y ago

> what may be the consequences of this? Need to get a new computer? Doesn't seem the end of the world for such an unlikely act.

akoncius 5y ago
so.. in that case it means computer belings to MS even if I paid full price?
userbinator 5y ago
Imagine that all your files have been helpfully encrypted --- for your security, of course --- with a key that is bound to that account you can no longer use. I'm not sure if this is possible or the default now on Windows, but it's common for mobile devices.
- chrisseaton 5y ago
  You've got backups. Right? And Microsoft already controls all your software if you're running Windows. It could already delete your files if they wanted to.
  - nicoburns 5y ago
    But why put yourself in a position where you may need use them if you gain no benefit from it?
    - chrisseaton 5y ago
      If the original commenter didn't want to use Windows anyway, then they've not lost anything. Presumably they did want to use Windows, and are not because of this issue, so they have lost some benefit they originally wanted, and gained nothing because their system was already controlled by MS. Hence it's pointless.
stirfish 5y ago
How would that help? Your account is banned.