Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop"

On 2024-12-20, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

Le 2024-12-20 à 00:46, RonB a écrit :

On 2024-12-19, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

Le 2024-12-19 à 02:45, RonB a écrit :
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I'm thinking more of stealing your fingerprint for other uses.

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Where Windows stores the fingerprints is fairly well known. However, the
fingerprint itself is encrypted within those files. I imagine that such
things don't matter and that anyone who has those files would be able to
use them to log in anyway, but reports of that happening haven't emerged.

 
All I know is that it was an issue at the beginning and, anything stored in
Windows can be found via back doors.

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By selling a retail product, both Microsoft and Apple have an obligation
to help law enforcement get access to data on computer hardware through
such backdoors. It's not the corporations' fault as much as it is that
of the governments where these products can be acquired. Just look at
what they did to the creator of Telegram who now changed the license to
say that your data _can_ be shared with the authorities. In the same way
that many Linux distributions will not include the NVIDIA driver or
proprietary codecs because they might infringe on the laws of some
countries, I believe that they include a backdoor to make it rather easy
for police to gather any information they might need from your computer
once the need arises. We've already determined that having access to the
code has not resulted in exploits being eradicated; why should we
believe that those same eyes would actually notice a hole being kept
open on purpose? People will arrogantly reply that Linux doesn't for a
variety of reasons, but they never looked at the code themselves.

It's not up to Linux users to prove they don't have backdoors. It's up to
you to show that they do. It's not "arrogance," it's a matter of fact. The
"but they (might) do it too" argument is weak when trying to defend
Microsoft's and Apple's lack of privacy.

I don't know much about any of these versions of Windows as I basically quit
using Windows when XP was going to be updated to Vista. I really don't like
any of them.

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It's a good thing you never used the beta versions of Vista. Those were
absolutely horrendous. When I got the e-mail telling me that the
operating system was being released to manufacturers, I was shocked
because I felt that it was nowhere near ready.

 
I heard a lot of bad things about Vista and Windows 8. Fortunately I didn't
experience them as a regular user. I did get Vista working on my old
Latitude E6400 (just to see if I could do it) but this was the last version
and was not a whole lot different than Windows 7 by then (that I could see).

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7 is basically just an optimized version of Vista. There is very little
difference between the code of either.

I'll take your word for that. I know 7 was popular while Vista (at least
early versions) was not.

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