09-02-2016, 02:42 PM
Hey Mike,
I'm not quite sure about what privacy differences you are referring to. You can certainly run Firefox as your default browser and Startpage as your browser homepage in windows 10 Home, and certainly proxy all you want. You can run Libreoffice for Windows as default office suite. You can easily separate Windows administration to homegroup, and leave other users without access. You can designate private network settings separate from public for safe networking. You can even run mesh and/or private ad hoc wifi with hostednetwork. There is no privacy from MS itself when you use any of their their products, but most other privacy things can be configured. Windows 7 is certainly more web vulnerable, and desktop vulnerable than Windows 10. You're a Linux user. You can get into any Windows file system you want, if the box is sitting in front of you and you have a live linux dvd, and know it or not the opposite is also true as well with certain live file managers in a base Windows rescue disk. All computers have accessible protocol accepting firmware, and disk formatted software. There is always a way in. There is no such thing as always private, just good security practices, delete key is not the same as mulit-pass zeroing, and excessively long mixed multi-character passphrases don't break in minutes on SBCs like you see in the movies, more like months and years even on supercomputers with DBs in the trillions and trillions, and in a ridiculous case like that it is actually possible to build a trojan into a passphrase and reverse the effect. MS is vulnerable across the board because they are proprietary, and refuse kernel access to their users.
TC
I'm not quite sure about what privacy differences you are referring to. You can certainly run Firefox as your default browser and Startpage as your browser homepage in windows 10 Home, and certainly proxy all you want. You can run Libreoffice for Windows as default office suite. You can easily separate Windows administration to homegroup, and leave other users without access. You can designate private network settings separate from public for safe networking. You can even run mesh and/or private ad hoc wifi with hostednetwork. There is no privacy from MS itself when you use any of their their products, but most other privacy things can be configured. Windows 7 is certainly more web vulnerable, and desktop vulnerable than Windows 10. You're a Linux user. You can get into any Windows file system you want, if the box is sitting in front of you and you have a live linux dvd, and know it or not the opposite is also true as well with certain live file managers in a base Windows rescue disk. All computers have accessible protocol accepting firmware, and disk formatted software. There is always a way in. There is no such thing as always private, just good security practices, delete key is not the same as mulit-pass zeroing, and excessively long mixed multi-character passphrases don't break in minutes on SBCs like you see in the movies, more like months and years even on supercomputers with DBs in the trillions and trillions, and in a ridiculous case like that it is actually possible to build a trojan into a passphrase and reverse the effect. MS is vulnerable across the board because they are proprietary, and refuse kernel access to their users.
TC
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