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Microsoft apologizes for updating Windows without user consent

Users of the Microsoft Windows operating system found system compontents had been updated despite the system wide configuration of disabling automatic updates. It proves that end users of the Windows operating system do not have the full control over their system as they might think. source: https://www.informationweek.com/government/microsoft-updates-windows-without-user-permission-apologizes archived source: https://wellthissucks.xyz/2007/09/13/microsoft-apologizes-for-updating-windows-without-user-consent-archived-source/
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Microsoft apologizes for updating Windows without user consent – archived source

Microsoft Updates Windows Without User Permission, Apologizes Over the last few weeks, without user approval, Windows Update has updated nine small executable files in both Windows XP and Windows Vista. J. Nicholas Hoover – September 13, 2007 Microsoft has been quietly updating Windows even when users have turned off automatic updates and without notifying users, […]
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Microsoft Windows contains a NSA backdoor access

It was revealed that the Microsoft Windows operating system contains a cryptographic key used by the NSA intelligence agency, likely used to allow access to data on any copy of the operating system used worldwide. source: https://www.heise.de/tp/features/How-NSA-access-was-built-into-Windows-3444341.html archived source: https://wellthissucks.xyz/1999/09/04/microsoft-windows-contains-a-nsa-backdoor-access-archived-source/
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Microsoft Windows contains a NSA backdoor access – archived source

How NSA access was built into Windows 04. September 1999  Duncan Campbell Careless mistake reveals subversion of Windows by NSA. A CARELESS mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency have been secretly built into Windows. The NSA access system is built into every version of the […]
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A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

An open letter aimed against the Telecommunications Reform Act and instead describing what the Internet truly is. source: https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence archived source: https://wellthissucks.xyz/1996/02/08/a-declaration-of-the-independence-of-cyberspace-archived-source/
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A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace – archived source

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have […]
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