Re:ReactOS 0.4.6 released
by skrowl on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @08:03AM
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"Monitor all your activity by default" is serious FUD here. There is some telemetry data collected and phoned home, but it's not like they're monitoring what websites you go to, what you write in your Word docs, etc.
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Not contents but behaviour. They do monitor if you use Chrome or IE, if you use Excel and for how long, etc. This alone is powerful enough.
Re:ReactOS 0.4.6 released
by PrimHelios on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @10:21AM
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Last time I checked, Edge still sent all your keystrokes to Microsoft in plaintext and over HTTP (not HTTPS).
So yeah, they are (at least were) monitoring not only what sites you went to, but also what you typed into them.
Went looking for it just in case it's true and... nothing. There's a case of predictive text system in windows 10 which can query for suggestions (there's an option to disable it), but no keylogger either in edge or windows that I can find. And the predictive text didn't use HTTP.
Cannot confirm--what toolset did you use to determine this?
Can you provide a source / proof of that statement?
Re:ReactOS 0.4.6 released
by you_are_wrong on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @12:00PM
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You should check more thoroughly, because that claim is complete bollocks.