You state that you haven't read the story I posted yet you feel justified in criticizing it?
Here is what the author Micah Lee stated "
ONE OF THE EXCELLENT FEATURES of new Windows devices is that disk encryption is built-in and turned on by default, protecting your data in case your device is lost or stolen. But what is less well-known is that, if you are like most users and login to Windows 10 using your Microsoft account, your computer automatically uploaded a copy of your recovery key — which can be used to unlock your encrypted disk — to Microsoft’s servers, probably without your knowledge and without an option to opt out."
Here is a comment from
your trusted site slashdot in which has one poster says:
"For example, as soon as the OS (Win10) was released we see how
the OS will send your keystrokes to Microsoft. Not just what you type into Cortana, IE, or Edge but
ALL keystrokes are recorded by the OS. You can disable sending the data to Microsoft, but we have yet to find a way of disabling the
keylogger built in to the Kernel. (recorded does not necessarily mean stored long term, but long enough to evaluate in memory.)
Due to that lack of trust, I may have installed Win10 but never created a MS or Azure account. Anything I do on the device is treated as public knowledge because
the OS is built to remove privacy from end users. I won't use online banking on the PC with Win10, and logging in to anything is assessed under
the assumption that someone from MS and the Government will have full access to the account. When I'm working on sensitive stuff I use Linux."
<-- This is from the link you posted! Do you see nothing wrong with Microsoft putting a keylogger into the Windows 10 kernel and then sending the data back to Microsoft? This comment is coming
your trusted site, not mine. And you still don't think Microsoft is collecting passwords to access customer data?
Do you think Microsoft put in a key logger in Windows 10 because they are running a contest to see who is the world's best typist? [head slap]
Juan Thompson never wrote the article that I posted. What does one have to do with the other? Using your misguided logic I could say the New York Times is all BS because their staff reporter Jayson Blair fabricated stories. So nothing NYT writes is now valid. Is that the extent of your argument? What about Claas Relotius from Der Spiegel who was CNN's international reporter of the year, who fabricated dozens of stories? Using your logic we have to say Der Spiegel & CNN are now totally bogus.
That was the point I was trying to make. The way Windows 10 is installed on the store-bought computers by default sends the BitLocker recovery keys to Microsoft without the user knowing anything about it. I don't know why you can't comprehend that.
Again, you didn't read the article. It concerns store-bought computers. I have been building my own computers for over 25 years and I am not going to go out and buy a new Windows 10 computer so I can prove my point which is the same as the author's point Micah Lee. Professor Mathew Green who is professor of cryptography at Johns Hopkins has grave concerns in storing keys on Microsoft cloud servers, as well as commenters from your Slashdot article. Microsoft is deliberately collecting passwords and recovery keys and storing it on their cloud servers.
Best Buy operated in China and closed their doors a few years ago. I used it as a name of a big box retailer. Don't get your shorts in a knot over the name.
I'm sorry you were unable to follow the narrative. The intelligence community is consistently trying to get back doors into computer systems like Amazon, Apple and Google. Microsoft is no exception.
Why does Microsoft store billions of encryption keys on their server? Allegedly when John Dillinger was asked "
Why do you rob banks?". He replied, "
Because that's where the money is!". John Dillinger in this case is the intelligence community. Why break into billions of separate computers if you can convince people to store their keys and passwords in one central location, like the Microsoft cloud servers? Convince people it is super safe so you can attract as many people as possible. Dillinger is a lot smarter than trying to hold up 1 billion people, one at a time. He goes for the mother load and sticks up the bank that contains billions of passwords. Should that ever happen, do you think Microsoft will tell the public? Yahoo managed to keep the news of their data breach of 500 million accounts a secret for years. Do you think Microsoft is any different? I don't trust Microsoft or any of the other multinational computer corporations. They are in bed with the same people they are supposedly protecting us from. If you don't think there is any pillow talk going on when they exchange a cigarette, then you're pretty naive.
I don't see any point in continuing this conversation. You either see the risk in trusting these billion dollar corporations with your data or you don't.
