Re:Our continuing commitment to your privacy with Windows 10
by raesene9 on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @03:08PM
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Many OS' and apps create unsolicited TCP connections on startup to check for updates, seems a touch harsh to equate that with "Zero Privacy", also kind of hard to see how they do product updates without them...
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Re:Our continuing commitment to your privacy with Windows 10
by PhantomGremlin on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @11:53PM
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kind of hard to see how they do product updates without them...
It's very easy to see how they do product updates without them. Simply have the user do "software update ..." at his convenience.
What you meant to say is it's kind of hard to see how they FORCE product updates without them.
Re:Our continuing commitment to your privacy with Windows 10
by raesene9 on Thursday January 12, 2017 @04:11PM
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For non-technical users, it seems pretty likely that a product without automatic updates, users won't update frequently.
This results in users getting compromised... a lot... that's why pretty much every heavily used piece of consumer software now does automatic updates, from Apple, to Google to Microsoft.
Decrying automatic updates as "zero privacy" seems a bit daft in that context.