Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update

Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update by Arizhel on Monday May 15, 2017 @11:21AM (#14342250)

I disagree about the CIA analogy, because having your DNA collected really doesn't harm you or affect you significantly, though it is a privacy violation.

Here's a better analogy: suppose you were pushed to get a vaccination, but the vaccine company secretly added a virus to the vaccine which alters your DNA so that your hands turn into claws and you grow antlers, because they thought this would be a great idea somehow. Then after word gets out about this, they say anyone who doesn't get this vaccine is an "anti-vaxxer" and "ignorant". That's basically what Microsoft did.

(reference for the body modifications: http://dilbert.com/strip/2004-04-18)

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Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update by lovich on Monday May 15, 2017 @11:35AM (#14342368)

On the CIA point, from the Pakistanis viewpoint it was a foreign government agency using the DNA from the vaccinations to pinpoint a physical attack in their borders. If it had come out that another nation had done that in the US, we'd be clamoring for war. That is a very good reason to be wary of vaccinations at that point

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