Windows 10 is the reason that my new laptop runs Ubuntu exclusively.
>Microsoft: "Windows 10 is coming out! Get in line for a free upgrade now while you still can!"
>Microsoft: "Windows 10 is out! We're still letting people get in on the free upgrades! Get it before we start charging!"
>Microsoft: "We're just going to make Windows 10 a recommended upgrade and make it increasingly difficult to avoid."
>Other tech people: "Hey guys, Windows 10 sends a lot of data back to Microsoft. You can't turn that fully off and it'll just turn itself back on anyway without your permission."
>Every Windows OS before this has cost a fair amount of money
>We live in a world where PRISM exists, and is known to exist
Really? Really? Really?
Windows 10 is shit. How much are they paying you to make these posts, Redezra? Does your paycheck come from Microsoft, or do you get it directly from the NSA?
Hey, the Australian Signals Directorate gets PRISM data, they're BFFs with the NSA. I don't have to be working for your government, I could just be working for mine.
And if you think that Open Source solutions are going to save you, you have another thing coming. They are in your firmware. They are in your microcontrollers. They are in your CPU. Unless you've personally replaced the firmware on those devices, you are at risk.
You cannot win. To believe anything else is to deceive yourself. The only option people have is to make sure that the agencies that do watch everything are carefully monitored and are ethical. They aren't at the moment, I'll give it that, but trying to stop them watching your stuff is categorically impossible.
And you know what's even more of an unpopular opinion? The benefits of mass surveillance so far have outweighed the costs. Have you had your freedom impinged? Have they kicked down your door? Have you been rejected from a job because someone disapproves of your porn habits? No? Is there any evidence that this has been misused? Well, yes, but LOVEINT is not using mass surveillance to subdue and oppress the populace. You are currently acting out of fear. Until evidence arises that this is being used in a significantly malicious way, I have no problem with the NSA and friends watching everything.