They are capable, they've done it before and compromised accounts on PSN and Xbox live (MICROSOFT OWNED COUGH COUGH) They also hacked Malaysia airlines
What reason would they have to secure their xbox live servers with the same amount of security as those with all the personal data of billions of users? Alright look at it this way: what reason would they have to NOT encrypt all of this personal data with robust encryption (RSA-2048)
Well first off you didn't read that correctly at all. My concern is for the data of small businesses getting stolen. Second of all, not giving them the details doesn't work if they keep setting up programs and applications in products that collect loving data genius.You're missing the point. The fact is they still have the ability to access data when they want for any reason. Thats a right companies shouldn't have.
Again: Encryption.
How would they access this data if the near entirety of employees do not have the private keys?
Quite recently a virus impersonated Microsoft-signed drivers to be able to get into your system and infect it, being completely undetectable to antiviruses. That's an impersonation, and that's just the tip of the iceberg of what hackers can do. They're constantly getting smarter and smarter, and I can guarantee you whatever system Microsoft has in place is just as crackable as that.
The fact that people have the ability to personally stalk without you knowing has nothing to do with the fact that Microsoft can spy on you when you willingly install their software on your machine. Posting that excerpt allows people to make the decision of whether or not to upgrade for themselves in much the way that if you knew who was stalking you, you could call the police on them.
They don't even mention where the emails are coming from. They could be grabbing it from the browser for all you know. That's the big thing: You don't know what they do with your data, and you have no control over it.
Many people have a "Better safe than sorry" attitude on life, some people simply prefer their own privacy. Some have secrets that they need to protect. That's their perogative. I'm not trying to force anyone here to not upgrade if they don't want to, I'm simply allowing people to better inform themselves so they can make a decision. I'm stating the facts. If you don't like the facts, that's not my problem.
Again: you're executing this code manually as a user. This isn't hard to pull off when you're executing said file. If hackers are so capable then why aren't they so widespread and why haven't way more companies been hacked yet?
Unless you don't know they're even stalking you in the first place. Besides I was making the argument that your "personal" info isn't as personal as you think.
And you know they wont do something bad with the data. Why would they?
Also, to me you're stating opinions, not facts.
There is also sorts of stuff besides embarrassing information, research, and criminal stuff that is worth protecting like legal documents, case notes, financial records for companies, blue prints, documents, cases, shipping manifests, anything.
Maybe I'm some small time inventor working on a game console. The blue prints aren't done and the design hasn't been patented yet. However some guy finds an exploit in the OS and steals my blue prints or Microsoft steals it and uses ideas for their new xbox and then patents it before I can. Hell, that how windows started in the first place was stealing ideas from Apple before they could patent them.
This is the fifth time i've stated this: Why would they do something bad with the information? It's encrypted for a good reason.
If they do this and get caught in even the smallest of ways then there are huge punishments. And apple patented a lot of the stuff before microsoft even tried. Apple was just being ridiculous.
If you're worried about microsoft stealing your blueprints then just switch to linux or something.
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