6 facts about how Windows 10 steals your personal information. The magnitude are staggering

The site warns that the use of Windows 10 may not be safe for your konfedintsialnosti! Researchers armed with a network monitor, debugging tools and other professional tools, and looked inside the new OS to understand what "Windows" steal from the computer polzovatelya.



1. All printed tekstNevazhno what application you are using. Keystrokes are intercepted at the level of the operating system, data are collected in bags and sent to a frequency of 1 every 30 minutes on the server Microsoft.

The formal explanation from Microsoft: need to improve the predictive system (rapid typing).

2. Location-based DATA name Wi-Fi networks nearby. Generated and transmitted every 30 minutes. Allows you to track the physical movement of the user to within a few meters.

The explanation from Microsoft: data needed for search engine Bing, so that it can issue more relevant answers.

What it means for the user: Microsoft knows your home address. If you have a mobile device running Windows 10, in Microsoft know about all the places where you spend time.

3. Recording with mikrofonaMikrofon in Windows 10 all the time. First, it has been suggested that it is necessary for the operation of the service Cortana (voice assistant), but later it became known that Cortana off does not solve the problem. Recording the user's voice can be accumulated, some part of them is sent to the server Microsoft.

4. TelemetriyaFantasticheskaya potentially unsafe in their function, which is not even hidden by developers. Telemetry - is the transfer of data to Microsoft about your computer and your activity. Going literally everything: what programs are installed, which are running, the amount of memory, application logs, fragments of memory and so on.

Given that the memory can be anything - from data for internal use only to credit card numbers - such a transfer to someone else's server is a potential vulnerability.

5. Fighting piratstvomWindows 10 scans the user name files and compares with a constantly updated list of pirate novelties. If you are matching, custom directory listings sent to Microsoft. In fact, the computer communicates on its same owner.

Recall information about anti-piracy activity Windows 10 have been known for a long time. But I suppose that will focus on the fight against counterfeit games. Now it becomes clear that the main goal - to deprive users to download torrents pirated copies of American movies and TV series.

6. Portrait pamyatNekotorye users have noticed that after the first activating Windows 10 for short periods included web-camera. Studies prove it - in Microsoft 35 MB of data is transmitted immediately after the activation and activate the built-in camera. Presumably, these are linked to the user account Microsoft.

via fishki.net/1628537-chto-imenno-kradet-u-polzovatelja-windows-10.html

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