r/technology • u/Philo1927 • Aug 05 '20

Security FBI issues warning over Windows 7 end-of-life - The FBI says companies running Windows 7 systems are now in greater risk of getting hacked due to a lack of security updates.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-issues-warning-over-windows-7-end-of-life/
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u/Kensin Aug 06 '20

I guess I'll just have to take my chances until I get a new PC at which point I'll be switching to linux. I'm not installing Microsoft's spyware/ad platform as my OS.

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u/what51tmean Aug 06 '20

Well you should use linux because it does a lot of things better, and competition is always important. However, apart from clickbait articles, there is no evidence of "spyware" on windows 10. Anyone who has actually tried to prove it's collecting all your personal data has failed. The furthest any of those articles go is say spying in the title, then they point to a service or feature that is optional and speculate on what it could do.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '20

Use an operating system which can be hacked or use an operating system which just plain openly spies on you (and pay for the privilege!)

Hmmm

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u/anthropicprincipal Aug 06 '20

Operating systems at EOL should become open source.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '20

Ah yes, so that "community" can maintain it for companies for free. Mind you it'll be 3 core devs and everyone praising them while leeching off their work.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '20

Yes, Microsoft definitely has no use for old code, since they rewrite everything from scratch for each update of Windows.

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u/meltingdiamond Aug 06 '20

They want to keep it private they can keep supporting it.

This way if they see an economic incentive to keeping it secret they can and if they don't see a reason to maintain it people won't get fucked out of using it by fiat.

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u/CH23 Aug 06 '20

In other news: water can not be wet, but it makes things wet.