ITS TIME FOR NERDGASM!!!!
Hey whats up guys Jerry here aka, barnacules and today
we're going to be talking about some of the problems and
Privacy issues with the windows 10 creators update now the update just went live today
on 4/11/17
you can actually go into windows update and force to install yourself or you can just wait a couple of months of Microsoft will
Sneak it onto your box without your permission in the middle of the night now one of the first major (sneaky)
Issues with the update is that it resets all of your default
Applications regardless of how you install it when the install is complete you're going to find the edge is now your default browser again
You're going to find that Cortana is back on your box if you disabled it using one of the many programs out there
Basically they take it back to default now
Microsoft in the past is claimed that they're not doing this on purpose that it's a bug or an artifact but Microsoft
Specifically tests for this and I know because I used to be an employee there
And I know that we always test to make sure that default settings weren't touched the reason that they're doing this is they're hoping that
By forcing people continuously to go back and try Edge and try Cortana and try all these things
They're basically going to convince you or beat you into submission and just accepting it and using it
and I'm not saying the edge is a terrible browser actually edge is probably one of the better browsers that Microsoft has made especially when
You compare it to internet exploder
but
forcing people to use these
Applications isn't the right way to go about it and this all wraps up into that new business model to Microsoft Following
That's just [strong-Arm] the customer trust me. They won't care. Yes. What yes they do care
I'm one of them
but the elephant in the room as always is the
privacy issues
and of course creators update has done some things to
Alleviate some of the stress of the public and one of those things is now they publish all
Of the information that they're collecting at two levels the basic level in the full level well when you install the update by
Default it's going to go ahead and select the full level for you. Which is basically going to tell them every website
You're visiting what apps you're opening what the file names are
That you're opening along with a laundry list of other information that they have published and I'll have the links to their actual
Articles telling you what data is collected but the thing that surprised me the most?
Was that the basic data collection level is ninety percent of the day?
The full set just adds on some actual data that most people wouldn't want collected no matter what and keep in mind
that is the default setting so let's say that you go ahead and back it off to the basic setting they're still collecting a
plethora of information from your computer and one of the things that really
Bothered me and Drove me absolutely nuts
is that if you scroll down the list you'll see one that says they collect your
Imei number from your mobile device basically if you have a sim card in your tablet, or
In your laptop or even in your phone running windows 10 operating system what they're they're getting from you is the imei now
That's your personally-identifiable
Number on your cellular network with that number your cell provider knows exactly who you are and everything that is transacted
between your mobile device and their cellular towers now Microsoft goes out of their way to state that this is not a
Violation of privacy because they don't have access to those databases with the imei number, so they don't have your personal data
But the thing this this is the thing that bugs me about Microsoft is that right now. They're telling everybody
Oh no, no, we don't we're not collecting that that's not [personal] personally identifiable, but the truth is it absolutely is
Personally identifiable because anybody can call up a cell provider and pretend to be you
Issues Imei number and get back information from the cell provider also another scenario is and this [and] this could happen
Microsoft could partner with the company because keeping my microsoft partners with a lot of companies they could partner with AT&T or
Verizon or t mobile or Sprint and by partnering with those companies they would gain access to those databases
And then they could link that data together and now every piece of data they connected from your computer link to that imei number can
Now be linked to the other database
Which is your mobile data transactions and things like that
But Microsoft can actually take this another step and they don't say in the information collected that they have your login information
Which is your windows live account which [microsoft] pretty much strong arms you to create now windows 10
There is a way to create a local account, but they make it nightmarishly hard to do and not intuitive at all
But you end up creating a live account
Well that live account contains your email address and if you are dumb all of your real information
including your address phone number all that stuff that you decided to input when you created the live account now my
Soft has that and whenever they're uploading data from your computer Via telemetry
That is linked to that account which [means] that every single piece of data that they're collecting from your computer that they claim is not
Personally identifiable is linked back to that account which is
Personally identifiable so you guys following me here
Microsoft absolutely has a database they can track and connect any piece [of] data that originates from your computer
Back to you unless you were smart enough just to put in all bs
Information in your name is like Ip freely and your address is 1234 Baccala, Kodaka drive. Then you're probably saved
And guys just so you know this isn't tin foil hat
This doesn't mean this is all this information you can go out and validate yourself
Microsoft now discloses all of the information that they collect so you can go through that laundry list
and you'll probably find other little tidbits of information that can be personally identifiable or
Information you don't want collected like which apps you're opening all the time
I'm pretty sure a lot of you [guys]. Don't want Microsoft to know that you're opening up utorrent exe
50 times a day and that your imei number is linked [to] several terabytes of Data downloaded from sources you probably shouldn't be doing and
also
Most of us not all of us probably don't want Microsoft knowing that we're going to Pornhub
10,000 times a day not but [I] do good but my point here is
Microsoft is is giving the illusion that they're giving us what we want finally by showing us all of the information that they're collecting at
these two levels
But I'm going to I'm going to push back and say one
Microsoft says that this is the data collected as of the creators
Update that does not mean that they weren't collecting more data before they haven't even made a statement to this fact
They're basically saying as of the creator update we're going to tell you this is what we're collecting well
There's still a lot of evidence showing that Microsoft was logging keystrokes from the machine because [in] past videos and some other people
Pushing a keystroke on the keyboard the network monitor. Showed a bit of traffic going up to Microsoft in an encrypted packet
Why is it every keystroke?
What's sending some kind of Data to Microsoft when you were typing in the search boxes inside of explorer?
Well the answer [is] because they were key logging now however
They want to justify it or however they want to say that that data isn't personally identifiable
I don't believe it for a second because I for one played around with Microsoft's databases for years
Internally with the wire system the Watson system all the windows error reporting all of that
And all of that data was easily interlink in relational those databases were highly relational meaning
It was very easy to take one database and link it to another database and link it to another database and get a much
Clearer picture, so I'm not buying the story and the other thing is Microsoft showing you what they collect now again
That's not probably what they collected before
so I am going to be inclined to say that privacy probably isn't as bad in the creators update as it has been in the
Past because I'm sure microsoft pulled out a lot of things that were like oh crap
We shouldn't be collecting that but that doesn't [mean] that they're still not collecting a ton more data than you would want the other thing
That makes me upset about this
they do have the basic level and they have the full level the basic level like I said had ninety percent of
All of the Data collected I would expect the basic level to be the more bare option you select basic
it collects like five or six things from your computer instead of
10,000 and this list is huge if you scroll down this list, you're going to see just how many things are on it
And it's pretty freaking massive and scary how much information there transacting from your computer to the cloud now
There are a lot of people that are going to say telemetry makes software better
And it allows Microsoft to see this is the software running in the ecosystem and respond to it and make better software
I'm not arguing that that that's a lie. They're absolutely right. Well. I'm arguing is that it should be our
Decision on whether or not we want to participate in that system with software that we paid for now
I would like to petition Microsoft
And I hope that you guys petition Microsoft also to include an option to disable telemetry completely disable it
You select that option you do not transact any information to the Microsoft servers
And they just piss off
And I don't care if this option as a huge warning that pops up this is by doing this you're probably screwing your fellow
Microsoft user out of you know having a better experience in the long run
but let's be honest guys since telemetry has founded quality has
Actually gone down so Microsoft is not using this data in a very meaningful way because windows 10 quality hasn't improved that greatly over
time and compared to the past operating systems like windows 7 and where it was at and
also
The conspiracy where Microsoft's trying to get everybody upload for update from Windows 7 to windows tankers are claiming modern?
Processors will no longer be supported on Windows 7 which is completely bullshit
And I have an entire video on that also linked in the video description, but Microsoft's tactics
I've just gotten a little bit out of control here guys
I disagree with just about everything that they're doing and I
Love to hear what you guys [think] about it down in the comments [down] below and I would like to end this video by saying
That I actually think windows 10 is a good operating system
I think the improvements to the colonel and the how are very
Respectable the resource consumption is the lowest all time low of any Microsoft product ever created the Edge browser isn't that great?
But it has made strides, and it is infinitely better than internet explorer and especially if you're on a touch-enabled surface
It's actually a pretty nice browser
so I'm going to go ahead give them that where I am complaining right now is how Microsoft is putting such an
emphasis on collecting information from you
And I in their database while keeping on a smile and telling the public don't worry none of this data is
Personally identifiable when that is the biggest bs
story anybody has ever told in every piece of data this scent of my croissant is absolutely personally identifiable and
If you guys end up getting wrapped up in some kind of court case or something like that whether it be a nasty divorce
whether it be
Some more law enforcement is concerned with something you're downloading or somebody's investigating a network in an area and they subpoena that
Information from Microsoft they can link it to several other
Databases of mobile carriers and who knows how many other databases have that linking information because remember to tie two databases together?
You only need one piece of information
It's referred to as a key and if you have that key piece of information to line those two pieces of info
Everything else cascades and aligns along with it and it starts to draw a bigger picture also
I would like to thank [the] entire community and hopefully that means you who's watching this video for leaning on
Microsoft in forcing them to do the right things a lot of the complaints that we did in the beginning
led to the creators update disclosing all of the information
Then Microsoft is collecting and that's something that in the past they have kicked and kicked and kicked it would not disclose and a lot
Of our loud voices led to the European union, or what's left of it um?
fighting against microsoft saying that they will not tolerate or even calling the action illegal the collection of Data without their knowledge and
Microsoft definitely felt the pressure and Microsoft responded but guys still stay vigilant
Make sure that if you're running one of the programs right now to disable all the privacy features
Like Destroy windows 10 spying disable wind tracking do not spy 10 windows 10 privacy and shit
I love the name of that one windows 10 privacy fixer W10 privacy Etc
if you're running one of those programs
Please realize that if you run it after the creators update it may not [be] working in its entirety these programs usually modify
registry Keys
and I've heard from several people now that Microsoft is ignoring a lot of the privacy registry Keys and
Allowing it to just continue down and they change the entire privacy model
So chances are that a lot of those settings even though they say they're working
They're probably not so make sure that you're [using] a network monitor
Or some kind [or] checking your router logs and see how many connections your computer's making the Microsoft
After you apply those settings to see if there is something fishy there
And I'm going to be doing my own research on this moving forward remember the creators update just came out today
So I probably be doing a follow up video here in the next couple of weeks after using the creator's update to let you guys
Know what? I think [about] it. What problems I've encountered
What pros and cons because I'm sure there's going to be some cool stuff in there, too?
I've been reading about some of the features that they've added in there
Especially around the windows update system that I'm very
Excited about because it'll it'll lessen the pressure on us to just have random updates dropped on our head in the middle of a critical
Operation and screw us over which I'm sure you guys have seen tons of funny videos of people playing esportsonline
It's just getting punted right in the middle of a tournament
So Microsoft is making some changes Microsoft is trying to do the right things in some areas
But don't let them pull the tape over [your] eyes microsoft is still critical about collecting your information
and they still need your information because they've discovered the Google Amazon all these other companies that collect your information and
sell your information and use your information to market to you Microsoft's starting to learn that that is a very lucrative business and
Microsoft wants to bring that to the os because that's the one thing google. Can't do an Amazon can't do
They're trying to get that information faster sooner and try to get that information that nobody else can because they own the operating system
That's on your computer, and it's our responsibility to stop them unless of course you really could care less and don't care. What information
Microsoft takes from your computer in which case
Imvu, but unfortunately. I'm not one of those people [I] do a lot of critical stuff. [I] do a lot of stuff
That's under NDA I contract with companies and do a lot of stuff to touch that
I really don't want Microsoft uploading all the names of the files. I'm opening Metadata and also when applications crash
I don't want Microsoft sending the dump file
Which is the critical piece of information needed to debug or reverse engineer a piece of software up to the Microsoft Cloud?
I'm sure a lot of you guys
Don't want any want that to happen either, so please leave comment down below let me know what you guys think about this video
I will make more of these videos in the future because I am vigilant about keeping Microsoft in their place
My operating system on my desktop computer is my utopia. I don't care about my cell phone
I know everybody's stealing everything from cell phones Google Apple everybody
They're not they're not super trustworthy companies to begin with but they're also
Straightforward with us in what they're collecting what I do have a problem with this
Microsoft collecting a lot of stuff behind the scenes in my house, which is my desktop computers, this is my home
This is [my] this is my privacy
This is where I get to take off my underwear
And strut around my house need not worry about the neighbors calling the cops because the blinds are closed well Microsoft wants those blinds open
And they want my neighbors to see my wang and they want your neighbors to see your wang
So I say we we put up a little bit of a fight alright guys. Hope you enjoyed this video [till] [next] time
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