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Re: Big Vista may be watching You

On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:55:50 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
<newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>____/ Robin T Cox on Saturday 14 July 2007 18:59 : \____
>
>> Vista keeps something called a shad­ow copy that backs up your work in the
>> unused space on the hard drive. It?s designed to prevent data loss; but
>> with it that data will stay on the computer?perhaps forever. Windows
>> systems have been replicating data similarly in recent releases, but Vista
>> makes it easier for forensic examiners to find deleted data.
>
>So this is why shad­ow copy is running even when the data cannot be recovered
>(Basic/Home Edition). This also explains why Vista is so slow. It
>is 'gathering some evidence' all the time. Deletion, which is amazingly slow,
>was blamed on DRM, but apparently it's something else altogether.
>
>How about Vista's spyware features? (phoning Redmond with heaps of
>information).
>
>Microsoft really dropped the ball on this one. The more time goes by, the more
>people discover, and the uglier this vision (Vista) looks.

Irregardless of what Vista is doing, no one trusts Microsoft anymore. 


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