Idle musings...

[alexpgp]

Given all the hullaballoo about Windows 10 examining data on one's hard drive, wouldn't installing the upgrade on a computer with medical data on it violate HIPAA?

The more I hear about Windows 10, the less I am inclined to "upgrade" to it.

And the more I wonder when all those troubling security questions will start to apply to Windows 8.x and 7 as well.

Cheers...

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[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

Windows 10 examining data on one's hard drive
I have not heard about that yet. What does it even mean, what does it do with the data??

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

From the EULA:

"We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to protect our customers or enforce the terms governing the use of the services."

If one goes along with the default installation, you basically grant Microsoft the right to collect everything you do, say and write with and on your devices. Sure, one can dig into the settings and turn these features off, but I can't help but wonder...

Add to this the inability to stop automatic (and continuous) updates that come with no release notes—some of which have already caused headaches due to bad code that breaks things—and I'm not straining at the bit to upgrade.

Cheers...

P.S. Any postcard will do; no envelope required. Pretty stamps get extra points. :)

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

All of this, about Win 10, sounds rather ominous, but thank you for the heads up.

Re: P.S. For some reason, our pretty stamps have low values (last time I sent anything international postage was about 30 roubles (~85 cents then) and the stamps were 6, 6.5, 7, 8.5, 10 roubles, you get the idea), so I feel like Molly Weasley sticking 4 or 5 of them onto the card, and also fear running out of space for address. The envelope makes stamp choices more flexible, so I like sending cards in them.