From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@Shaw.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Very dangerous hacking ? Surprising relationship between cygwin and Microsoft
Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 13:53:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ffcb380b-524b-c645-2819-dc51050081f8@Shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH2Hv8KxgggLaavDNUp+cW6ua7NsMLjPt5rVZQhTG7wscZGzQQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 2020-05-11 12:35, David Macek via Cygwin wrote:
>> To conclude, Microsoft spy and register all sites you access, cygwin.com
>> in particular. I hope only with Edge, but I am not sure of that.
>
> Unless I missed something in your report, I cannot agree with your
> conclusion. *Windows* storing something in the registry does not imply
> *Microsoft* receives or processes that information.
It does unless you uncheck all the boxes that say they can: log and ship a
record of everything you access and do on the system and in each product!
They may also still claim rights to use anything you create using any of their
products.
I use ungoogled Chromium stable builds as Google, Mozilla, and MS, are as bad as
FB, LIn, etc. which I avoid like the plague they are.
--
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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2020-04-18 12:42 ` Bug with Windows 10 console akiki
2020-04-18 14:05 ` Thomas Wolff
2020-04-19 3:02 ` Kevin Schnitzius
2020-04-22 19:50 ` Can't use strace on curses application akiki
2020-04-22 19:59 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-05-11 16:25 ` Very dangerous hacking ? Surprising relationship between cygwin and Microsoft akiki
2020-05-11 17:07 ` Doug Henderson
2020-05-11 18:35 ` David Macek
2020-05-11 19:53 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
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