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Open Source and Free Software

Ron Obvious

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2. I feared as much...

Reply to defacto7 (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 16, 2014, 07:52 PM

Jul 2014

It's not so much the data collection I was worried about (though I dislike it, of course), but I just don't trust what I'm running on my own system anymore.

I worked in the MS systems division many years ago (pre 9/11), and I never heard even the slightest rumours about backdoors or anything, except maybe as a joke. I'm sure they would have quickly been detected in those days, as the systems were so much less complicated then, anyway. Now, I honestly can't say I'd find it difficult to believe any longer from what we've been finding out the past few years.

Thanks for answering the question.

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