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Old 09-20-2009, 04:01 PM
Jon Westfall
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Originally Posted by Fritzly View Post
Good opening but.... : I install a piece of software MS or another company sell; after that I set the parameters and decide what informations go out and come in.
Would you use a version of Windows knowing that the OS has a backdoor, which you cannot control, allowing MS or whatever other entities they give access to it, to get into your computer?
I would not as well as any business would not too.

Besides all my private information is not stored on "D:\Data on the HD; there are better ways to secure sensitive information and I bet you know and use them as well. :-)
There could be a backdoor in Windows that no one knows about that allows Steve Ballmer to personally alter my freecell scores for all I know. However I use the product because I trust the people who coded it not to do that. My confusion is why people then don't trust those same people to use a "kill switch" only in extreme cases where it warrents it. The fact of the matter is that MS is being far more open on the app-store thing than Apple or Google ever were.
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