• Engywuck@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Just imagine: using Windows and being concerned about privacy. Big lol.

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      1 year ago

      Haha, you’re so fucking hilarious. Maybe if you’d spend as much time being big brain comedy boy and masturbating over the next Debian point release you’d know how to lock down a Windows system.

      But you don’t. Because you don’t.

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        1 year ago

        But you don’t. Because you don’t

        Exactly, that’s the point he was trying to make.

        You can’t harden windows to the point of an acceptable level of security. That is the inherent nature of proprietary software.

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          And yet there are people that do that every single day, and it’s pretty much trivial to do.

          It’s fucking hilarious how many high horses Linux users ride on while knowing absolutely nothing about any other system. You just repeat shit that The Register or Slashdot told you was true.

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        But you don’t. Because you don’t.

        Nobody does. Windows is closed source and its inner working is a trade secret. This means you cannot know how to lock down windows. Of course there are best practices based on info from microsoft or people who know a thing or two about info sec but it’s all guess work and/or trusting the developer by its blue eyes.

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          There’s no fucking guesswork. Everything in and out of the system can be monitored. If you knew anything about Windows you’d know that, but your entire Windows knowledge comes from shit-tier memes and snarky stories from The Register.

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          Thats something Ive never understood about closed source.

          The OS, in its entirety, is on your computer. Why are you not able to open it up and root around within it? Is it just encrypted to a degree it cant be cracked? Or is the legal ramifications of unraveling it just not worth unraveling it?

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        1 year ago

        Imagine claiming to be technically competent and using Windows, being obliged to “lock it down” to made it a “non spyware”. Take your meds, dude.

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          1 year ago

          Imagine being such a dink you know nothing yet you open your mouth.

          Oh wait, you don’t need to imagine.

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        1 year ago

        They have a point though.

        Windows automatically means you don’t have privacy and you cannot have privacy.

        On Linux you at least may or may not, depending on configuration.