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Thread: Your Privacy Could Be At Risk When Installing Apps On Windows 8

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    Your Privacy Could Be At Risk When Installing Apps On Windows 8

    http://www.redmondpie.com/your-priva...-on-windows-8/

    tell me what you think i know if i get a windows 8 computer first thing im doing is reformatting and putting pcbsd or kubuntu on it

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    Meh...Nothing too alarming. You could always disable smartscreen. Of course hardcore PC users probably have already done so with or without knowing this tidbit of information. I really wouldn't let that deter your decision to get Windows 8 or not. Especially if you plan on using actual security programs.

    Now from a non power user perspective. Yes that is quite alarming. However, not the fact that MS is once again utilizing the phone home technique but rather the fact that it can be intercepted. That's just dumb on MS behalf. Then again, the average PC user probably hasn't come across this article yet. So again nothing too alarming......lol

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    investigation

    im gonna investigate further im downloading it as we speak going to use it in a vm and check it out, i posted this more as an intellectual exercise

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    So what your saying is that we should stop caring about it.....and let these companies get to know us a little better? I'd rather not be so transparent, otherwise I'd live in a glass house.

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    You sure talk a lot for a guy with a girl's name....

    "pinpoint"...wtf is a "penpoint"? You got a laser pointer?

    Piece and hair grease, Erin. lols.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AaronMaxwell View Post
    Don't forget the nearly pink looking shirt too.

    There is to much grease off the top but no hair.
    The word is "too", you got it right once, but failtarded the second time.

    Also, trying to be anon, is not anonymous, just saying.
    Every now and then, one of you won't annoy me.

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