Microsoft can scan your computer for pirated games (Win10)

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http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-08/17/windows-10-pirated-games-microsoft

 

Microsoft can remotely disable pirated games and unauthorised hardware being used on Windows 10, according to the company's usage guidelines.

Section 7b of the Windows 10 services agreement, which all users must agree to in order to use the operating system, states:

"We may automatically check your version of the software and download software updates or configuration changes, including those that prevent you from accessing the Services, playing counterfeit games, or using unauthorised hardware peripheral devices."

 

 

edit: 

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2971088/windows/fears-of-microsoft-scanning-your-windows-10-pc-for-pirated-games-are-overblown.html

Edited ... by ZPKZ

[bigbrosbitch 65]

It's far, far worse than that.

 

Basically Microhack is turning your computer into a mobile phone in terms of leaking data, location, all activities, all downloads, trawling through your files, gathering contact lists, browsing behaviour and so on.

 

Oh yeah, ALL THE TIME too and YOU CANNOT turn off a number of privacy invading leaks which 'phone home'.

 

As far as I can gather, this is the geek billionaire rolling over to the military-industrial-spy complex, so they can be in your home at all times and gather the vast majority of desktop users' data.

 

You know, because of the statistically improbable terrorist bogeyman we are all supposed to fear, but don't.

 

It really is Spyware O/S, and here is another 30 concerns that should have the Windows victims fleeing their persecuters to Linux.

 

http://www.howtogeek.com/224616/30-ways-windows-10-phones-home/

 

My favourite Microhacks are as follows:

 

Tracking galore:

 

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1. Let apps use my advertising ID for experiences across apps (turning this off will reset your ID) – This enables a unique advertising ID that you can be tracked with across different “Windows Store”, or universal, apps. Microsoft can track your use of apps and show you targeted ads across different apps.

 

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Keylogging:

 

 

3. Send Microsoft info about how I write to help us improve typing and writing in the future – This is related to the “Speech, inking, & typing” settings below. With it enabled, information about how you type and write is sent to Microsoft’s servers.

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Tracking and profiling:

 

 

• 5. Personalized ads in this browser – This option is specific to each individual browser you use, and controls whether Microsoft will show you personalized ads in that browser.
• 6. Personalized ads wherever I use my Microsoft account – This option is tied to your Microsoft account and controls whether you see personalized ads on Windows, Windows Phone, Xbox, and other devices you use a Microsoft account on.

 

 

Geolocation:

 

7. Location and location history – Your location is shared with individual apps that you choose to share it with. Location history is also available to apps, and stored only on your local device — and just for 24 hours. But apparently some data is shared with Microsoft and its trusted partners if you have location services enabled.

 

Your own creepy, electronic stalker. Yah!

 

 

8. Speech, inking, & typing – Windows and Cortana can “get to know you ” by logging your voice, writing, contacts, calendar events, speech and handwriting pattern, and typing history. You can tell Windows to “Stop getting to know me” from here. This clears data stored only on your Windows device.

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Phone home to the mothership at all times - the umbilical cord can't be completely cut (like never leaving home; cute):

 

 

10. Diagnostic and usage data – By default, Windows 10 will send “Full” diagnostic and usage data to Microsoft. This seems to be Microsoft’s new telemetry system codenamed “Asimov.” You can select only Enhanced or Basic diagnostic and usage data. You can only disable this on Enterprise editions of Windows, and that requires changing the “Allow Telemetry” option in the group policy editor. This change doesn’t even work on Professional editions of Windows. Yes, you can set the option to “0” which would normally disable it, but the Group Policy editor states that the “0” setting is ignored except on Enterprise versions of Windows. Instead, setting the option to “0” just sends “Basic” telemetry data.

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Cortana stalking as an 'enhancement' - my own single white female! Awesome!

 

 

11. Cortana – As you can see when you enable Cortana, Cortana will collect and use “location and location history, contacts, voice input, searching history, calendar details, content and communication history from messages and apps, and other information on your device.” Cortana also captures your browsing history from the Microsoft Edge web browser. Cortana as a whole requires sharing a lot of data with Microsoft, just as Google Now and Siri do with Google and Apple.

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Disk encryption that is backdoored by the Stasi!

 

 

13. Device encryption’s BitLocker recovery key – This actually only automatically happens if you use a Microsoft account. And, if you do, it will upload your encryption recovery key to Microsoft’s servers. This means that you can get access if you ever lose it, but it also means that Microsoft or anyone who can get the key from Microsoft — such as a government — can decrypt your encrypted files. Of course, this is still an upgrade over the previous situation where all Windows Home devices were unencrypted. In that case, anyone could read their data.

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Windows 'Defender' that refuses to be removed and phones home automatically - nothing like absolute control over your operating system!

 

 

 

• 14. Cloud-based Protection – Cloud-based antivirus protection “sends Microsoft info about potential security problems Windows Defender finds.”
• 15. Sample submission – This helps improve Windows Defender’s protection “by sending MIcrosoft malware samples” that Windows Defender finds. Both of these features are similar to the features found in popular third-party antivirus products, and can be disabled.

 

 

 

Browsers that invite my single white female stalker to sit on my shoulder as I trawl the net - a government approved nanny in other words. No wonder Microhack is taking so much browser marketshare /sarc:

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17. Have Cortana assist me in Microsoft Edge – When Cortana is enabled in Microsoft Edge, Cortana will track your browsing history and other information, saving it.

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Sign in and be automatically profiled across multiple synced accounts, including down to the hardware (presumably MAC) level. Nothing like an electronic tag for the sheeple!

 

 

 

• 23. Sync settings – A variety of Windows settings such as your saved passwords and web browser data are synced by default if you sign in with a Microsoft account. These options are available under Settings > Accounts > Sync your settings.
• 24. Devices you’ve logged in from – Microsoft will keep track of devices you’ve logged into with your Microsoft account. You can view this list at https://account.microsoft.com/devices .

 

 

When you sign in, they 'personalize' your experience, but are really building a massive personal profile that no doubt becomes part of 'Operation NSA data centers', since anything that flows into the US across major network points are hoovered up - see Snowden disclosures for evidence. USA! USA! USA!

 

 

 

• 25. Personal history and interests – You can clear personal info and “interests” in Bing, MSN, and Cortana from the https://bing.com/account/personalization page.
• 26. Bing search history – Search using Windows 10’s Start menu and the Bing search in Edge and you’ll build up a Bing search history tied to your Microsoft account. You can view and clear this history from https://bing.com/profile/history.

 

 

You can't control update and store activity - we are all in electronic bondage now - Windows does 50 Shades of Gray. Hot, so very hot....

 

 

 

• 27. Windows Update – Windows 10 Home requires that you install security, driver, and feature updates automatically, and you can only prevent Windows 10 from automatically downloading updates by setting your device’s connection as a metered connection or upgrading to Windows 10 Pro. Thankfully, there is at least a way to block updates you don’t want.
• 28. Windows Store – The Windows Store will automatically check in with Microsoft and download new versions of included universal apps like Microsoft Edge. Even Cortana and the Start menu can be updated via the Windows Store.
• 29. Windows Activation – Windows still includes Windows Activation, which checks in with Microsoft’s servers to ensure you’re using a properly licensed and activated version of Windows.

 

 

And best of all, if we share the wi-fi password with our 'friends' (whom they are also tracking and linking to your personal profile), and they 'share' it, everyman and his dog is using your individual network. Basically, a network clusterf**k full of strangers.

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30. Wi-Fi Sense – These options can be controlled under Settings > Wi-Fi > Manage Wi-Fi settings. Note that Windows 10 won’t actually share your Wi-Fi network’s passphrase with anyone else unless you choose to manually share that individual network. However, if you give a friend access to your passphrase and they connect and click the Share option, they could share it with their entire network of Facebook, Skype, and Outlook.com email contacts and give them access to your Wi-Fi network.

 

 

Conclusion:

 

American 'exceptionalism' in software development apparently means running you desktop as 'FinFisher Lite' and being a data serf under the thumb of police state sympathesisers.

 

Indeed, Windows 10 is like stripping down to your electronic G-string and running naked through the virtual matrix.

 

Every spook, miscreant, tool and authoritarian ass-wipe will be trawling through your data, if you ever become a person of interest.

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Bankrupt these guys and run Linux, period.