Do you realize that what microsoft did with win10 (full botnet and keylogger) is actually raising legitimacy and...

And when Fukushima melted down, Chernobyl magically became fertile farmland.

You do know that it's been confirmed that Windows had backdoors since at least XP, and probably before that, right?

like, there was a leak of FBI tools that let you access everything on a PC running XP with just a USB?

I knew Holla Forums was a shithole, but is everyone new too?

You just denied the existence of the bad updates and then confirmed them in two consecutive sentences.

And what are the steps for that?
>manually and individually install the updates you think you might be able to trust

Alternatively, you could use an OS that doesn't try to sneak spying into its updates at all, where you can know with a very reasonable degree of certainty that you're never going to get an intentionally harmful update to your computer. You can have a sandwich that probably has shit in it or you can have a confirmed shit-free sandwich; which do you choose?

No I didn't, you dumb nigger

None of these say anything about updates. Which are pushed by the same team that made Windows 10. So you could have asked and I would have elaborated; I was talking about the base system. I suppose I was also talking about the security updates. I figured all this was implied because we are on Holla Forums. Oh, right, people on Windows don't know how to use computers. I bet that's what you're getting at, isn't it?

Not downloading them.

Check every optional update. Or just don't install optional updates. Check every update in the recommended section that's not strictly a security update. That's it.

No, you can use the update manager.

Well when you're ready to actually prove me wrong I'll be here waiting.

And lose all the programs you use while you're at it. Also lose your entire workflow. Lose all the features you're used to because GUI is only for non-autists I guess, and lose productivity for a week or more while you look for, and learn to use new programs.
By the way, I use Linux. In fact, I am using it right now. I do duel boot. Quite often I might add. But I still use it.

>where you can know with a very reasonable degree of certainty if you check the source code that you're never going to get an intentionally harmful update to your computer.
Fixed that for you.

Lets cut the crap, you're no more or less likely to avoid a bad update or program on any Linux system than you would be on Windows or Mac. Unless you're only getting open source and you always check and compile the program or update yourself before installing it in the system. Which I know a majority of people don't do. Want I should remind you about Mint? Or how about that TCP bug? And before you go on some tirade about "Windows has bugs too!" let me also remind you that Windows is infinitely more popular to Linux. The fact one is more scrutinized than the other means it's simply more statistically likely to have bugs pointed out. Servers also get bugs all the time I might add, which if I remember the Linux talking points is Linux's biggest success. And for the record, I don't know how many times I downloaded a program for my Linux distro of choice only to find out it has a bug from years ago that was never fixed because I'm not even sure why. Yeah, they'll get around to it, when they feel like it, but good luck in the meantime.

No, more like you can maybe shit the bed without a blanket or you can maybe shit the bed with the blanket and it's much more comfy under that secure blanket.

By the way, all these alternative topics are completely irrelevant to my main post:
what spying does any Windows below 10 do? And how are you going to prove it?


Source? And how exactly did it do this through the base system? Did you have to install something first?

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I think actually you were talking about that specific paragraph. My apologies there. But I also copied
That's what I was asking you to prove., not the fact MS has backported spying.

Everything else I said stands though.

Yes. It is. Your conjecture and suspicion mean nothing because no one has even come close to proving anything about spying on older Windows OS'

And I work at ze muffin factory.

Are you drunk?