Secure Boot Isn't So Secure After All: The Golden Key Is Out

Secure Boot Isn't So Secure After All: The Golden Key Is Out

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So much for Secure Boot being so secure... After a mistake by Microsoft, the "golden key" is now out in the wild...

Microsoft Hates Linux: Patent Extortion Continues With New Software Patents Deal (Wistron)

Microsoft Hates Linux: Patent Extortion Continues With New Software Patents Deal (Wistron)

URL: http://www.linuxtoday.com/it_management/microsoft-hates-linux-patent-extortion-continues-with-new-software-patents-deal-wistron-160308071138.html

TechRights: Microsoft is still killing (free) Linux with software patents whilst at the same time telling the media that 'loves Linux'

Another Windows 10 Update Causing Problems

Another Windows 10 Update Causing Problems

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New submitter sexconker writes: The recently-released cumulative update for Windows 10 (KB3140743) is reportedly causing problems. Symptoms include crashes, BSODs, and the inability to boot, even in safe mode. The Windows 10 subreddit has many threads detailing the inability to boot. The only fix seems to be booting to a recovery ISO, uninstalling the update / rolling back, and hoping you don't get hit again. W10Privacy 2 claims to be able to (among other things) give Windows 10 users control over the automatic updates.

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Bill Gates apoia solicitação do FBI para hackear iPhone de terrorista

Bill Gates apoia solicitação do FBI para hackear iPhone de terrorista

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Bill Gates se dissociou do Vale do Silício no impasse entre a Apple e o governo dos Estados Unidos, afirmando que as empresas de tecnologia deveriam ser forçadas a cooperar com as autoridades em investigações sobre terrorismo. Leia mais (02/23/2016 - 16h06)

Microsoft Monitoring How Long You Use Windows 10

Microsoft Monitoring How Long You Use Windows 10

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Mark Wilson writes: The various privacy concerns surrounding Windows 10 have received a lot of coverage in the media, but it seems that there are ever more secrets coming to light. The Threshold 2 Update did nothing to curtail privacy invasion, and the latest Windows 10 installation figures show that Microsoft is also monitoring how long people are using the operating system. This might seem like a slightly strange statistic for Microsoft to keep track of, but the company knows how long, collectively, Windows 10 has been running on computers around the world. To have reached this figure (11 billion hours in December, apparently) Microsoft must have been logging individuals' usage times. Intrigued, we contacted Microsoft to find out what on earth is going on.

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Microsoft Has Your Encryption Key If You Use Windows 10

Microsoft Has Your Encryption Key If You Use Windows 10

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An anonymous reader writes with this bit of news from the Intercept. If you login to Windows 10 using your Microsoft account, your computer automatically uploads a copy of your recovery key to a Microsoft servers. From the article: "The fact that new Windows devices require users to backup their recovery key on Microsoft's servers is remarkably similar to a key escrow system, but with an important difference. Users can choose to delete recovery keys from their Microsoft accounts – something that people never had the option to do with the Clipper chip system. But they can only delete it after they've already uploaded it to the cloud.....As soon as your recovery key leaves your computer, you have no way of knowing its fate. A hacker could have already hacked your Microsoft account and can make a copy of your recovery key before you have time to delete it. Or Microsoft itself could get hacked, or could have hired a rogue employee with access to user data. Or a law enforcement or spy agency could send Microsoft a request for all data in your account, which would legally compel them to hand over your recovery key, which they could do even if the first thing you do after setting up your computer is delete it. As Matthew Green, professor of cryptography at Johns Hopkins University puts it, 'Your computer is now only as secure as that database of keys held by Microsoft, which means it may be vulnerable to hackers, foreign governments, and people who can extort Microsoft employees.'"

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Windows 10’s broken fall update removes user-installed applications without asking first

Windows 10's broken fall update removes user-installed applications without asking first

URL: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/218570-windows-10s-broken-fall-update-removes-user-installed-applications-without-asking-first


Microsoft's latest Windows 10 update is causing problems for at least some users, and uninstalling programs without the user's consent or evidence of a problem.