(Redacted) has hacked and stalked me for 12 years [pdf]

Re:(Redacted) has hacked and stalked me for 12 years [pdf] by navjack27 on Saturday October 15, 2022 @07:16PM (#33219542)

Yeah what's the context here? These are funny tho.

Oh my Lord some of these complaints and reports... I hope they are getting mental health help or something. Wow

  Am being blocked from installing a program from AVG my computer is being hacked and i need help from someone.Someopne needs to trace this computer I believe a crime is being commited.Please advise on feasability on contacting FBI

  On 5-30-2016 the Microsoft Corporation took control of my computer without my permission and up-dated my Windows 7 operating system with their Windows 10 system. This change was unsolicited and there was no way to cancel it. This action in my opinion is no different than any hacker taking control of someone's computer to use for their benefit. This unauthorized action took place after months of Microsoft placing pop-up ads on my computer, which I deleted. I request the FCC investigate this and numerous other similar complaints and take the necessary action to prevent this unauthorized kind of tampering with private property.

There are absolute gems in here. This is the general population folks! Would more education help? I don't know.

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Re:(Redacted) has hacked and stalked me for 12 years [pdf] by webmobdev on Saturday October 15, 2022 @08:08PM (#33219849)

Though I am not a lay person and a "power user", I can relate to the second example - I was very furious when Firefox enabled update and installation by default and Apple forced ios updates on its users. And while me may mock this kind of outrage, there is some truth today that Google, Apple, Microsoft etc. are all taking control away from us and "stalking" us online and offline, and have been doing so for a while now.

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Re:(Redacted) has hacked and stalked me for 12 years [pdf] by ViViDboarder on Sunday October 16, 2022 @09:32AM (#33223479)

To be fair, they are damned if they do and dammed if they don’t. Don’t include auto updates, you’re in the news and people are upset that they have been hacked or catching viruses.

For the average user, auto updates are a blessing.

Nearly every system I’ve used does still give you control by allowing you to opt out.

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Re:(Redacted) has hacked and stalked me for 12 years [pdf] by webmobdev on Sunday October 16, 2022 @12:56PM (#33225136)

In the beginning ios didn't - they even connected to the wifi automatically, to download the huge updates. I think Windows also has announced forced updates. That extent of forced updates is just abusive.

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Re:(Redacted) has hacked and stalked me for 12 years [pdf] by smoldesu on Sunday October 16, 2022 @01:12PM (#33225287)

You can livepatch your OS without auto-deploying the next major version of iOS. That's what, I dunno, security focused OSes do when a critical vulnerability is discovered.

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Re:(Redacted) has hacked and stalked me for 12 years [pdf] by ViViDboarder on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @08:58AM (#33246433)

I didn’t think they did major version auto updates while security patches are offered for the current version. I could be wrong.

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Re:(Redacted) has hacked and stalked me for 12 years [pdf] by LocalH on Sunday October 16, 2022 @12:01PM (#33224619)

On the other hand, there are some absolute gems on the other end of the spectrum, such as ticket #1024971 on pages 26 and 27 entitled "High FEC Uncorrectable Errors on Upstream Caused by Very High SNR on Upstream Node"

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Re:(Redacted) has hacked and stalked me for 12 years [pdf] by Toadtoad on Monday October 17, 2022 @01:59AM (#33230195)

My favorite was the one talking about their "constitutional right to privacy" before dropping their full address in the FCC complaint.

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