Windows 10 - Quietly Logging EVERY KEYSTROKE You Type And Sending It To Microsoft(How To Stop It)

SHTF Plan ^ | 3-25-2017 | Mac Slavo

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Yesterday we reported that an international group of hackers claim they have breached Apple’s iCloud user database and stolen 300 million usernames and passwords. The group has threatened to initiate a widespread factory reset on April 7th, 2017, potentially wiping out data on tens of millions of iPhones and iCloud accounts should Apple fail to pay a ransom.

But that breach by nefarious hackers, while serious, is nothing compared to what your trusted operating system provider may be doing on your personal computer.

According to a recent report, if you are a Windows 10 user then every single keystroke you have ever typed on your computer may have been logged and sent to Microsoft.

You know those nagging questions during the installation process that ask you whether or not you want to “help” improve Windows by sending data to Microsoft? If you happened to answer “yes” to one of these questions, or if you went with the Microsoft default installation, there is a real possibility that everything you have done on your computer from the get-go, including sending “secure” messages (because the keyboard logger captures your keystrokes before they appear in your secure messaging app), is now a part of a massive user database somewhere.

There’s been heaps of controversy associated with Microsoft’s latest operating system Windows 10 since it was launched, but the latest issue takes the cake – apparently Windows has been quietly logging every single keystroke users make on their keyboards from the beginning. Even better, that data is being constantly sent to Microsoft’s servers on a regular basis.

Via IB Times

It’s been reported that Microsoft has been using the data to improve artificial intelligence writing and grammar software, but it’s not clear what else they are doing with it.

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[indthkr]

De-Fanging Windows Products bump for later...

[Vic S]

I thought that had been tried? This image is a year old.

[Vic S]

Here is another article on the same subject:

http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-disable-telemetry-and-data-collection-in-windows-10/

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Go to your bottom taskbar, click on the box on the lowest right corner ( also called notifications ) . Will give you All settings, also on the lowest right. Click on that and privacy setting are there.

I also searched my computer for them.

[SaxxonWoods]

They keep that up with me they’ll die of boredom.

You can thank me later.

[Jim W N]

Found it, thanks.

[DaveA37]

“Still using Windows 7. “.......

Same here Liz. I plan to avoid W10 like the plague and may even drop the computer all together if forced to move to W10. As I sit back and ponder life before a computer, I got a lot more work done without one.

[Bob434]

it’s in the privacy settings in hte ‘settings app’-

http://lifehacker.com/what-windows-10s-privacy-nightmare-settings-actually-1722267229

[VaRepublican]

Don’t care what you think. Don’t care what you say. I worked for a contractor at this site for a couple of years. they have since been left go but this seemingly small data farm keeps getting bigger. Hey, no big deal all is well................

[VaRepublican]

sorry.. since been let go...

[OKSooner]

I still haven’t gotten over the boating accident, myself.

[Jim W N]

Actual I found it for Win-10, Google Chrome using this instruction:

Go to your bottom taskbar, click on the box on the lowest right corner ( also called notifications ) . Will give you All settings, also on the lowest right. Click on that and privacy setting are there.

[SaxxonWoods]

OK, I did it. Now we’ll see if it stays that way. Thanks.

[Paladin2]

AMI Pro did that quite well decades ago. It’s been downhill since then.

[VaRepublican]

This place is huge and if you follow the articles in local papers is worth billions of dollars. It is amazing to me that Mc awful doea not talk about this development.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this. My Windows 10 laptop is never connected to the Internet or wifi. I use it only for my wife's MS Works spreadsheets to help her balance her checkbook. We used to do our annual Christmas letter. Stopped when it started helping me to type the new annual letter. It has its own printer connected.

[TomGuy]

If you still use Win7 AND you have updates turned off, Microsoft can still get inside your computer.

A long time back, I turned Win Updates off. Occasionally, I will notice a glitch and have to do a system restore. I notice in the system restore several somewhat recent entries — Critical Update. Note that that update had already been applied — even though my Win 7 Update is turned off.

[VaRepublican]

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Microsoft+Data+Center/@36.6869964,-78.3798468,2862m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xb850a498ff10422c!8m2!3d36.6771189!4d-78.3742678
From the road back to the end is basically about 2 miles....

[Chainmail]

Oh, swell.

[snooter55]

Saving for “JIC” .