Windows 10: Is keylogging holding you back?

So true. I use Win10 for everyday usage just because it works fine for me and I really like it. With each patch it's becoming more stable for me at least.

YMMV

 

God, not this again...

This has been clarified many times. Microsoft is not keylogging. There is no "utility to capture keystrokes". What there is, is the *EXACT SAME THING* that has been in windows since, I think IE8, and Microsoft has just clarified this in their EULA.

What they are referring to is the "feature" of Internet explorer to correct spelling. As you type, the words get sent to Microsoft to verify spelling, and little red squigglies show up under them when they are not real words... like "squigglies". Microsoft does not capture or retain this information in non-beta versions, but the fact that it's sent to them means it does pass through routers and can possibly end up in log files.... even in production versions. This is MS "Covering their rears". And it's a feature that is in Windows 8.1, Windows 8, and Windows 7. You can disable it by turning off spell-checking, just like you can disable smart-screen to prevent Microsoft from seeing the websites you visit. Microsoft also collects "keystrokes" when you type in the address bar for autocomplete purposes, since those get sent to Microsoft as well so that they can return autocomplete results to you.

That is *ALL* this hubbub is. So please stop willfully repeating this nonsense about keyloggers in Windows 10. It's nothing that's not in every version of Windows since at least Windows 7.

The only difference here is that it's in the EULA. Certainly Windows 10 collects all kinds of other data as well, much of that data is actually newly collected. This particular feature is not new. And Microsoft has said they are analyzing the spelling and autocomplete data to improve the feature in Windows 10. But the same risk is there regardless.

Either you trust MS with that data or you don't. If you don't, then you shouldn't be trusting that they aren't recording and saving that data in Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 either.

 

Here's Dedoimedo's take:
Windows 10 Tech Preview keylogging - Cry me a river

 

Thanks for the link!!


Jeff

 

Thanks for the link also!

 

that article was well-done.
I passed it around to a few smart folks.

MS still has an opportunity here but they have really got to comprehend the larger world and get out of the "protect the base" mode and mentality. google and apple are still gagging over the painful idea of docking handsets and using them for all purposes instead of some purposes - still a "sell the device" mentality, or really what they want [the googles of the world] is to keep trendlining toward a "rent my terminal" model where they control everything - just like Matrix.... the user is just a tax unit *Smile