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If you write a WhatsApp message in the web interface, for example, it is not sent to google. I also have the choice of keyboards on my Android systems. Rather than cop an attitude, why not just tell us the information? That is done by the majority of software written and is done to simply assist the user in operating the software. There is no record kept of the keystrokes used in any way. It is NOT a keylogger, and this article is just conspiracy paranoia. What it does is collects information about your use of the product, including some text and voice input, and returns some of that data to Microsoft for use in tuning performance and improving voice recognition and spell-checking.
If you want to turn it off you can, but there is no reason to believe it is doing anything nefarious. A keylogger in this sense is a program installed on a target machine to covertly record the keystrokes and mouse clicks of a user who is unaware they are being monitored. This is usually done with malicious intent to collect your account information, credit card numbers, user names, passwords, and other private data. This is not what they are doing.
Also, it does not collect everything you type, just specific data.
If this were the case we would know about it because it is not hard to monitor your outgoing packets to see what they are collecting, so every IT professional and computer nerd would be pretty pissed off and Microsoft would be taken to court. An IT professional would know the packets are encrypted so there is no point in using Wireshark without the encryption key.
There is no way to determine what information is leaving your system. An IT professional would also know that to monitor the packets, you would have to use an external system to ensure that you got all the packets leaving the system including those from a possible back-door built into the OS. There are two keys, a public key and a private key. The public key is known between sender and receiver server , private key remains on your own machine…..
So you do have access to your own key. In public key encryption, which is what you are talking about, both parties have access to the public key and the private key, which is used to decrypt the message, will be with Microsoft ONLY because they have to decrypt the message, it is NOT on your machine. Also, not a single expert in security has read the encrypted traffic. There is not a single mention of an analysis of the information being sent to Microsoft because NO ONE has read the encrypted traffic going to Microsoft.
Also, which you are probably not aware of, Microsoft is probably using double encryption where the data is encrypted on your system and then it is encrypted when it is being sent to Microsoft. That makes it a lot more difficult to view the original data. Make sure it is a lot more difficult for anyone to access the data.
There are also other methods of ensuring the data is protected from hacking the key which are not well known, but make it a lot more difficult to know if you have actually broken the encryption. The only requirement for a keylogger is that it logs the keystrokes of the system it is running on. There are plenty of non-malicious uses for keyloggers, but this is not a keylogger, and there is no evidence that what they are doing is malicious either way. Microsoft calls it a keylogger. Do you have any evidence that they are actually logging all of your keys?
This can only be done with a keylogger. Nothing else can collect your keystrokes except a keylogger. Writing an article on the internet does not make you a security expert, or even a techie. What can I say? As a programmer or not if it makes you feel better, Windows 10 comes with a keylogger and once again Microsoft is being vague about the information it is actually collecting. This is as vague as hell. Microsoft is being deliberately vague. Microsoft has a lot of lawyers.
The only reason Microsoft would be vague would be to hide what it actually is doing and that is collecting keystrokes using a keylogger. Non of the security experts I know believe this is a keylogger, and until someone shows me a single shred of evidence that it is, which you have not done, then my position stands. You are not going to see the evidence of it logging keys. Its a simple matter to hide a process so you never know its running and encrypt any information being collected. If I was writing the software for the keylogger, I would look for keywords and only log all of the keystrokes if one of those keywords were triggered.
Also I would ensure that I could remotely activate various keylogging functions.
I see no encrypted data being sent to Microsoft. And when I do, it wont be encrypted for long… You are trying very hard to prove that it is possible, without showing any evidence that it is actually happening. Anyone would know that the telemetry would have to be encrypted that Microsoft sends from your computer.
But if you want it from Microsoft: Anyone would encrypt telemetry leaving a computer. Any software, the telemetry should be encrypted to protect the information. I am quite tired of this conversation that I never expected to turn into this. Microsoft telemetry data is encrypted using TLS v1.
If you want to have a look for yourself, go ahead…. You are getting no benefit at all, while having your privacy violated. So let us say that Microsoft is NOT doing anything nefarious with the data that you type into your keyboard. What if hackers steal the data from Microsoft servers or from the web traffic while the data is being transferred to Microsoft servers?
As a programmer or not if it makes you feel better, Windows 10 comes with a keylogger and once again Microsoft is being vague about the information it is actually collecting. In about a week she changed yahoo accounts but again thanks to your program I was able to find the password for it and continued to send info to the FBI. Can you imagine a Wikipedia with ads? It offers both online and offline tracking features and offers multiple packages for business and personal users. Download it at a home computer and put it on a flashdrive, sd card, or a cloud system like google drive.
Think of the sensitive information they would have access to. In conclusion, only a brainless idiot would keep this setting on.
I take it you are a brainless idiot, correct? I turned it off when I installed Windows to conserve bandwidth. Collecting telemetry data is common and for the most part not frowned upon in the IT world, aside from some more extreme cases. I would argue that all Windows users benefit because they are using the statistical data to improve Windows.
I DO care about privacy! I use both Signal and Tor. The point of my argument was that this is not a keylogger. Snowman would agree with me on that. Microsoft has stated that Windows 10 has an inbuilt keylogger. The keylogger was supposed to be removed when Windows 10 was released to the public but Microsoft kept it in there which it appears from its functionality, it always intended to do. The people with the insiders programs stated that Windows 10 came with a keylogger which was going to be removed when Windows 10 was released.
However, the keylogger was kept in when it was released to the public. That was the original poster. Trust me on this, dude, you chose the wrong person to debate this with.
I know how to use wireshark and other software to monitor, log and analyze my outgoing traffic…. There is no way you can determine what information is being sent from your computer because it is being encrypted. You use session key logging to get the symmetric session key used to encrypt TLS traffic to a file. You can then point Wireshark at said file and presto! That method can be used for Chrome and Firefox because they support logging the symmetric session key to a file. I can find no mention of the same technique can be used for Windows 10 and I seriously doubt Microsoft would allow access to the decryption key using this method.
The Patriot Act also allows for direct connection to the tech companies so the NSA can collect data at any time. Verify this via the web. Microsoft has a history of sharing data with the NSA — it was the first company to volunteer its services for the data collection program called Prism which was run by the NSA. Microsoft also has a copy of the encryption key for Bitlocker for each system.
This information can be verified on the web. The German head of Microsoft has made a statement that Microsoft is collecting all user browser history.
Microsoft has also made a clear statement that they are collecting user browser history. You should be able to find this on the web. The NSA is collecting valuable information about user activity including browsing. I know all about the Prism program, but it is not what we are talking about. The more connected we become, the more information they and foreign powers are going to collect. And the more powerful computers become, the more effectively they will be able to make sense out of that information.
There are degrees of information. The NSA can collect telephone call times and then infer who was talking to which person and other connections. Then there is stripping your computer for all the information they can milk which is an invasion of privacy. This only tracks the touch-screen keyboard input and the words you enter into it to improve suggestions. Windows 10 has an inbuilt keylogger which logs your key strokes and it can be turned off and probably can be remotely turned back on if someone wanted to do that. What they will probably do is to collect metadata with the keystrokes such as a timestamp and the the context of the key being pressed — i.
A keylogger is a program that reads keystrokes and then records that information. That is all a keylogger is and the code to write a keylogger is really quite simple. The information that Windows 10 has a keylogger is old news — its been reported numerous times since Windows 10 was released to the public. Whatever fuss you make — there is no changes at all. Windows Phone 7 LG. General Cell Phone Forum. Want Mobile Windows Phone on Cingular.
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