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It’s not a security flaw, it’s by design. Microsoft has been building this surveillance apparatus for years, and seeking government access to your computer and data with your tax dollars is a lucrative alignment of state and corporate power.

It goes like this:

Force online Microsoft account creation.
Require TPM compliance to run Windows.
Encrypt the user’s data under the guise of “security”. (Encryption is safe and secure right?)
Link your identity, payment information, data, online activity, and encryption keys to your hardware ID.
Record everything you do and use that data to train an AI model with onboard tensor hardware.
Exfiltrate the entire model, or just query it remotely for “online services.” Or, in this case, just have MS give you the fucking recovery keys. lol

All done “securely” with tamper resistance and mathematical verifiability that whatever is on your device is yours, and that you took that action with limited plausible deniability.

If you think you’ve got nothing to hide, think again about the current activities of ICE, law enforcement investigations based on reproductive health data, the pornography suppression movement, age verification, and the data harvesting of dissenting speech. What’s legal today can quickly become “illegal” tomorrow. The constitution is just a piece of paper in a fancy climate controlled box.

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Zephorah@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Linux, people. Linux.

Suggest Pop!_OS for the fearful.

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- Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  Suggest Pop!_OS for the fearful.
  
  Mint, I think you mean Mint.
  
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  - Zephorah@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I realize Linux distros inspire arguments on the level of which rule set is the best rule set for D&D. As such, everyone is right, and no one can really prove anyone else wrong no matter how long they choose to argue. Unless we’re discussing the awfulness of 4.0 of course.
    
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    Rothe@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Indeed. I think the inevitable discussion about best distro, which always comes up in this context, is more hurtful than constructive, since it may end up confusing and scaring away potential Windows-defectors.
    
    The point is to get them to try out linux and get a taste for it, and only when they have become comfortable with the concept and realised it is not so scary of a change that some people claim, should they begin to consider which distro is right for them.
    
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    Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I haven’t seen anyone argue on the ruleset of DnD, so I’m disregarding that, but I agree with your point. Remember: Switcning distros is easy.
    
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- nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  sorry, what is Linux? I’ve never heard of it
  
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  - Jesus_666@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    It’s a German laundry detergent brand.
    
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- allriledup@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yes, I am indeed Linux people.
  
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- W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Had Pop!_OS. Had multiple issues with sound and a work VDI.
  
  Went back to Mint. No issues at all. Same everything (hardware / headset / etc).
  
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  - Zephorah@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    We have Mint in the house too. Pop! Has given no audio issues. Bluetooth audio worked out of the box.
    
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    W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Not Bluetooth audio, regular audio with a VDI.
    
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- tomalley8342@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Don’t most Linux distributions not enable full disk encryption by default? How would that have improved the situation in this case?
  
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  - wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    While it’s rarely by default (I actually don’t know any that do by default but), it is usually a simple checkbox during the installation. And a provided password, of course.
    
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  - bryndos@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    It's worse than that, lots of these linuxes actually have this builtin virus called wine, which means they are really just windows in disguise.
    
    It also makes them look like a hacker to the FBI, that's why TYOTLD has never come. Most linusers are getting dissapeared to guano bay.
    
    Far safer to stay on windows, linus is only suitable for real hackers who can grep their way into cia mainframe to expunge their records.
    
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    myserverisdown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    It took me until the 3rd paragraph to realize this was cap
    
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- FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Arch for the chads (and authors of future ‘Help my Linux Broke’ OPs)
  
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  - Zephorah@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Wait. You’re saying there’s a distro easier out of the box than Pop! ??
    
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    FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Personally I cannot say, but I’ve seen Mint recommended a lot and new Linux users sound happy with it.
    
    If this were Linuxmemes I’d say that LFS is the only real Linux distro everything else is just conformity and giving in to THE MAN
    
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evol@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
You make Microsoft act like some mastermind genius carefully planning to take away everyone’s rights instead of a bunch of clueless DIrectors who are chasing KPI’s. Just happens more people relying on their technology means when the Government comes knocking they can give them all the data they want.

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frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
If they were that interested, why would they push encryption at all?

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- wuffah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  That’s a great question, and it is because it enables a chain of cryptographic controls that enable verification, tamper resistance, and secrecy while selling Bitlocker as computer security. It is technically secure, except that MS has your recovery keys and can give them to whoever they want.
  
  This way, they can mathematically verify:
  
  Who you are and the exact unique machine you use (verification from a unique machine ID associated with your encryption keys and Windows account data)
  
  Know that the data has not been altered in transit (tamper resistance hash of your data)
  
  No one else knows except them (secret encryption keys only Microsoft controls, not you, Microsoft)
  
  Imagine what you could do with this power for every Windows machine on the planet.
  
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- Xaphanos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Verification of identity.
  
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- foodandart@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Marketing. Just that.
  
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TWeaK@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Project PRISM has matured.

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JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yeah but as long as you download CSAM you’re on this governments good list. Use that to throw them off your scent.

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