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Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by nsajko »

KaterKarlo123 wrote: post #62
x5n1 wrote: post #13

Basically M$ adoption of this strategy is the death knell for any semblance of privacy on the PC. It's amazing how far we have come to accepting such draconian measures in order to further marketing. There is still time people, come on over to Linux, the privacy here is still fine and will continue to be fine. And if you come over, then all the desktop software makers will port their software to Linux and all the col…

I've deactivated all reporting and services that call back home (at least which I was aware of). In addition I've installed glasswire to check the network activities. So far I can assure you: Compared to my Android phone Windows 10 is absolutely mute. There're no noticeable differences compared to Windows 7. You seem to be more driven by your hatred towards Microsoft than by real privacy concerns.

Glasswire runs on the OS, it doesn't protect you from it.

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by lewiseason »

asdfaoeu wrote: post #190
danlindley wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you recommend a resource that would provide some good information on this? I keep hearing about ways to modify routers to operate this way, but have yet to come across something that clearly describes how this is done.

The cheap and easy way to do this is to buy a hub and plug it into your router the computer you want to analyse and another computer.

Or buy/make something like this:

http://hakshop.myshopify.com/products/throwing-star-lan-tap

and a couple of USB-Ethernet adaptors

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by scholia »

Kequc wrote: post #179

> The controversy began because of a line in Microsoft’s service agreement. This allows Microsoft to issue updates that will stop users “playing counterfeit games,” according to TorrentFreak. Game companies have been issuing updates that stop users "playing counterfeit games" ever since it was possible to do so. Microsoft is a game company, or one of the divisions are. It's interesting that they would stop there, rat…

That bit of the service agreement came across from the Xbox One agreement, just as some other parts came across from Windows Phone.

It's part of what happens when you have an OS that runs on different types of device, which is the aim for Windows 10.

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by xfalcox »

danlindley wrote: post #181
smtddr wrote: post #158

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>>I've deactivated all reporting and services that call back home (at least which I was aware of). In addition I've installed glasswire to check the network activities. I'm going to recommend to you, or anyone, wanting to verify Windows 10 network behavior to do it without depending on software running on the OS itself. Try verifying it again using network analyzing software on linux or macosx, running downstream of…

Could you recommend a resource that would provide some good information on this? I keep hearing about ways to modify routers to operate this way, but have yet to come across something that clearly describes how this is done.

The most common way is using an alternate firmware, like OpenWRT. You need a compatible router, but the official site is good enough.

http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by tunap »

joesmo wrote: post #208
ionised wrote: post #177

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CyanogenMod is a barebones Android ROM that comes with permissions management.

As far as I can tell, I still only have the option of accepting or denying apps' permission on CyanogenMod. Also, I can hide my contacts and location from apps, if I'm really persistent about clicking the deny box a million times. But I still can't approve only the app permissions I want and not approve the ones I don't (which coincidentally are not essential to app functioning).

I'm unsure why I cannot replt to ionised to ask which version he/she's running. I remmberPrivacy Guard briefly had those features, or was it when 'Roid inadvertently included the privacy feature they pulled d right after the EFF praised them for it? Either way, I'm sure my new flip phone will spy on me, I'll minimize what I give them... a removable battery doesn't interfere with elegan design on a clam, apparently.

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by vlunkr »

dottrap wrote: post #191
pjc50 wrote: post #144

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How is Steam on Linux (+Wine) these days?

SteamOS officially launches in November. It's starting to get pretty good. Don't know about Wine.

Do you have a source on that? That's pretty exciting news.

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by camperman »

afarrell wrote: post #163
progman wrote: post #107

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> Nothing about Linux on the desktop "works fine". It's horrible. This claim is usually made by Windows users who don't want to invest any effort and time to learn another desktop -- which they had to do in Win8 anyway. Linux offers several nice desktops (KDE, Gnome, XFCE, E17, etc.) which we can freely choose from. I am a Linux user since the 90's and I have always used it as my primary desktop. It works perfectly w…

> Usually made by windows users I used to make this claim as someone who had been using desktop gnu/linux for several years. I've been using OSX now for a year and so stopped making the claim. But it is really frustrating to hear people say "it works for me" to rebut claims that it doesn't work for most people. Such counters and arguments over them are basically single data points. If the point under discussion is "d…

Linux is free as in speech, not free as in beer. You're free to use, copy, modify and distribute it subject to its license. It's not about price and never has been.

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by andrepd »

KaterKarlo123 wrote: post #62
x5n1 wrote: post #13

Basically M$ adoption of this strategy is the death knell for any semblance of privacy on the PC. It's amazing how far we have come to accepting such draconian measures in order to further marketing. There is still time people, come on over to Linux, the privacy here is still fine and will continue to be fine. And if you come over, then all the desktop software makers will port their software to Linux and all the col…

I've deactivated all reporting and services that call back home (at least which I was aware of). In addition I've installed glasswire to check the network activities. So far I can assure you: Compared to my Android phone Windows 10 is absolutely mute. There're no noticeable differences compared to Windows 7. You seem to be more driven by your hatred towards Microsoft than by real privacy concerns.

Deactivating the services that call home doesn't stop Windows 10 from calling home. You can only completely disable "telemetry" if you have Windows 10 Enterprise Edition and even then I'm not entirely sure it does completely shut down.

And anyway, even getting to this meant manually ticking out dozens of boxes in several settings windows and installing a packet sniffer to check your own computer for unwanted connections. Nevermind that running a packet sniffer on your outgoing connections usually means you suspect you have a virus (which is what Win10 is?), it requires technical expertise that 95% of Win10 users won't have.

No I don't think GP was driven by hatred of Microsoft, as much as a genuine dislike of an operating system which hands over control of your own computer to someone else. I always thought Stallman was being hyperbolic when he said "with free software the users control the computer, with proprietary the computer controls the users", but I don't anymore.

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by progman »

weland wrote: post #148
microtonal wrote: post #126

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No, it's not. Besides driver problems, missing support for newer OpenGL standards, fragmentation of desktop environments and a dozen of other problems, it doesn't even have GUI isolation (meaning that any X11 application can sniff your keyboard input): http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/articles/20040705.html http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.de/2011/04/linux-security...

> Besides driver problems As long as you stay away from perpetually-beta distributions that I shall not name, driver problems are really a non-issue. I haven't had a malfunctioning peripheral under Linux in a very long time now (years?). Driver problems are on-par with what you see on Windows :-). > missing support for newer OpenGL standards This has been a common complaint about OS X for a long time, and no one thou…

> As long as you stay away from perpetually-beta distributions that I shall not name, driver problems are really a non-issue.

One of the first thing every Linux user needs to know is that he should only use hardware which is listed in the HCL (Hardware Compatiblity list).

http://www.linuxhardware.net

If you want to have ready-to-run Linux then take a careful look at http://linuxgizmos.com.

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by mtgx »

KaterKarlo123 wrote: post #62
x5n1 wrote: post #13

Basically M$ adoption of this strategy is the death knell for any semblance of privacy on the PC. It's amazing how far we have come to accepting such draconian measures in order to further marketing. There is still time people, come on over to Linux, the privacy here is still fine and will continue to be fine. And if you come over, then all the desktop software makers will port their software to Linux and all the col…

I've deactivated all reporting and services that call back home (at least which I was aware of). In addition I've installed glasswire to check the network activities. So far I can assure you: Compared to my Android phone Windows 10 is absolutely mute. There're no noticeable differences compared to Windows 7. You seem to be more driven by your hatred towards Microsoft than by real privacy concerns.

So you think customizing the OS fully to turn off the privacy intrusion and using a network monitoring tool is an "acceptable" solution for the mass market (99.99% of the users)?
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