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Secret Gov Surveillance Doc Microsoft Doesnt want us to see
| Posted by The Dude, 02-25-2010, 09:58 PM |
| Take your time to read this document it and understand it..
http://anonym.to?http://file.wikilea...rosoft-spy.pdf
If you didnt think PRIVACY WAS GONE,after reading this you will!! (This file keeps being deleted on the various places its at (M$ trying to cover this up))
This is one reason why i dont like any of the newer OS's from them!!
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| Posted by ZKuJoe, 02-26-2010, 02:35 AM |
| I like how you utilized anonym.to, nice touch. This will make for some good reading material for work to pass the time I'm sure.
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| Posted by ZKuJoe, 02-26-2010, 02:43 AM |
| OMG, what a waste of time. The only thing I learned is that Microsoft has a better privacy policy than I thought and that they store less data about individual users than I thought (hell, my server logs more information about my users and the retention period is MUUUUUUUUUCH longer).
So in short, the above PDF has changed my mind about Microsoft, they are actually doing a good job looking out for us and not documenting everything they can about us, not to mention they aren't readily handing over boxes of logs to the government like some people would have you think.
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| Posted by The Dude, 03-02-2010, 05:13 AM |
| In a continuation of the excitement around Microsoft's confidential Law Enforcement guide hitting Cryptome.org, now several more Law Enforcement Sensitive PDFs about Windows 7 have been posted, including a lot of detailed information about examining BitLocker drive encryption and potentially cracking it: "We can also see the Recovery Key ID number" and a series of hex addresses, it says (win7-bit-spy.pdf p 67). With all the guides Cryptome has posted for PayPal, MySpace, AOL, SKype, Yahoo! & others, one can certainly get a clearer picture of implementations of government demands, but also these training manuals created by the companies clearly illuminate their own intent. Also, who else has had this information? Isn't it deceptive marketing to peddle products with such backdoors or intended weaknesses?"
http://slashdot.org/submission/11827...on-Cryptomeorg
link to large pdf file (win7-spy.zip)
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| Posted by whmcsguru, 03-02-2010, 10:44 PM |
| Wait, anything in that PDF was not normal?
Microsoft collects your IP address - Check, so does my serverMicrosoft stores your email - Check, so does gmail, any other free mail provider, and any other hosting provider when you tell it to.Microsoft stores your Name, age, address, etc. Well, of course. If you're a 'paid' user they have to use this to renew your account.Microsoft stores your login history. Again, duuh, no brainer.
So, what exactly was so 'secret' about this? More scare tactic propoganda if you ask me. This is all very, very common stuff. Now, if they kept IM history (which they say they do not), that'd be a different issue, but this is pretty straightforward stuff here.
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