Vista Sends Personal User Data To The Vole In Redmond

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Are you using Windows Vista? Then you might as well know that the licensed operating system installed on your machine is harvesting a healthy volume of information for Microsoft. In this context, a program such as the Windows Genuine Advantage is the last of your concerns. In fact, in excess of 20 Windows Vista features and services are hard at work collecting and transmitting your personal data to the Redmond company.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Forget-abou...oft-58752.shtml

according to this article:the vole's default settings allows:

1. Microsoft can monitor all the visited URLs

2.Peer Name tied to your IP address are published

3.queries entered into the Search box included in the Windows Vista Control Panel will be sent to Microsoft

4.Windows Genuine Advantage, Windows Defender, Support Services, Windows Media Center and Internet Explorer 7 all collect and transmit user data to Microsoft

NSA helped Microsoft make Vista secure

Revelations about NSA's involvement in Vista's development raise concerns about possible 'back-door' access to data by the spy agency

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/10/...tasecure_1.html

americans accept that they no longer can expect privacy in personal communication .. vista opens the door glabally.

the EU has won multiple civil actions against the redmond vole.

Edited July 5, 2007 by pumper