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Jezebelley3D@midwest.social to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

Heads up. Facebook keylogs your passwords.

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Heads up. Facebook keylogs your passwords.

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Jezebelley3D@midwest.social to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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    Microsoft do the same with Windows and as far as I know, they haven’t got fined for it.

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      Do you have a source for that or you just making it up?

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        Its supposedly to learn typing habits. Heres how you turn it off.

        https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/microsoft-windows-10-keylogger-enabled-default-heres-disable/

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        It’s pretty hard to prove what anyone is doing with closed source code.

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          deleted by creator

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            Could be batched, could be encrypted, could be bundled with other data etc etc

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          Decompilers: Are we a joke to you?

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            I’d still agree with his statement. Subset of people who could even make the determination in available source code is small compared to total users, now reduce that set to people competent in reverse engineering. “pretty hard” is not a bad description imo

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        Multiple. I understand that many of you won’t believe or just don’t know about Microsoft’s spying, but that’s the reality. It can happen that I can have wrong with certain things (I’m only human, remember that), but Microsoft spying on you is the fact of why I now using Linux as my main operating system since 2015/2016.

        • Disable Keylogger in Windows 11 to Stop Microsoft from Collecting Your Data
        • Where does Windows 10 save Keyboard input?
        • Windows 11 Keylogger: How to Detect & Disable it
        • From a ex-employee at Microsoft: You won’t believe what happens when I turn off Windows 10 telemetry! - @Barnacules
        • Microsoft’s own privacy policy page (hit “Learn more” under “Personal data we collect” and scroll down to the bullet list for “Interactions”)

        There is a lot more proof out there, but I can’t think straight to be able to find them. So if you want to dig some more, by all means, do it.

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      To this day I don’t know what or why Google Chrome was using up all the processing power on my laptop while it was installed. As soon as I deleted Chrome, my 12gb laptop ran fine again.

      It probably wasn’t keylogging but it was probably not updating itself 24/7 either.

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        It probably wasn’t keylogging but it was probably not updating itself 24/7 either.

        You’d be surprised at how shit Chrome’s autoupdate is.

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