• free@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    what are people doing w there win PC and tor browser? u ain’t secure/private if ur on windows…anyway…🤷 *Linux gang

    • Voxel@infosec.exchangeOP
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      1 year ago

      @free Yep, thats why people invest a lot of time which have much more technical understanding than you have to create products to improve the privacy problem on Windows, Privacy isn’t a privilege which only a specific group of human is allowed to have, Privacy is a human right and should be accessable for everyone. If you miss the understanding for that, I would recommend informing yourself better then spreading false information.

        • zwekihoyy@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          you’re conflating security and privacy which are two entirely different subjects.

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              1 year ago

              not necessarily. you need security for privacy but you don’t need privacy to be secure.

              your data is more secure on windows from malicious 3rd party actors than Linux, but you have lower privacy due to Microsoft’s ridiculously invasive telemetry. The telemetry does not decrease your security though.

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                I wouldn’t agree the telemetry essentially increases ur attack surface to include all of Microsoft. Sure a Microsoft server might be more secure than something else but they are also a far bigger target

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                  1 year ago

                  I’m sorry but no lmao. Microsoft getting hacked isn’t increasing your risk for exfiltrating local data.

  • Isoprenoid@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Microsoft: Cool, now we know what communities care about Tor on our OS. Time to pass this info onto the alphabet groups.

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    1 year ago

    Glad this got cleared up. Surprised there wasn’t a louder more public notice from the Tor group. Despite what people want, windows is a major platform with many tor users.