Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] IceCat 45.7.0 release

[Ivan Zaigralin]

On Wednesday, March 15, 2017 19:23:24 Gary wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017, Ivan Zaigralin wrote:
> > Here you go, pal. Section 7.b. You see where it says "computer
> > information"?
> 
> 7b states: "Microsoft may use the computer information, accelerator
> information, search suggestions information, error reports, and Malware
> reports to improve our software and services. We may also share it with
> others, such as hardware and software vendors. They may use the information
> to improve how their products run with Microsoft software."
> 
> But in 7a they also point out that "in some cases, you may switch off these
> features or not use them." Of course, if I were concerned I would turn
> these features off then block outbound connections to Microsoft, use an
> offline update utility like WSUSoffline, and not use Internet Explorer or
> other web services.

You can't turn them off. In some cases you can, which means absolutely 
nothing, since in other cases you cannot. Which other cases? All the ones you 
don't know about because they don't have to tell you jack.

> They *do* have the *capability* to get absolutely any information from your
> > computer, like real-time screenshots, keystrokes, or webcam feed. ... that
> > is, if you ever ever ever dectect the leak.
> 
> [citation needed]

Please do not take this the wrong way, but if you need a citation for this, 
then you must be missing on some really basic understanding of how a modern 
computer works. In short, micro$soft runs a mystery program on your pc, and it 
runs with the highest privelege afforded by your hardware (CPU, etc.). No one 
even *knows* what it does, let alone able to fully control it, besides 
micro$oft. Absolutely anything you can direct your computer to do from within 
window$, micro$oft can do remotely, surreptuously, and *trivially* in the 
technical sense. I would read on wikipedia about software, and then free 
software, and hopefully all of this will become obvious.

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