Genuinely interested, why would Win7 be worse than Win10 if you had the same network setup, same browser (same extensions) and behaved the same as you do with Win10?
I ask as even at home, my different devices all use the same browser/extensions, VPN and browsing habits. I use established FOSS where possible and the only problems I have had since Windows 98 are from data breaches (nothing I could have prevented with different OS/software).
There is no difference between security and privacy. If you have no privacy, compromising your security is easy. If you have no security, compromising your privacy is easy.
I would not have thought the improvements would have been that significant (I'm old and ignorant).
HeSP is dependent on the cpu? (article noting intel gen 11 and amd ryzen 3 are needed) and ASLR still being implemented on Win7 with http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2639308
We still have to keep a couple winxp and nt boxes alive at work for diagnostic gear (none are online). Thankfully not my job as I am obviously a risk :)
Forced ASLR isn't the important feature (the browsers already opted themselves in). The increased entropy, which doesn't exist on Win7, is important however.
Windows 10 was technically vulnerable, but since Windows 10 has drastically better security features, from a defense-in-depth standpoint, having Windows 10 more or less rendered most computers immune in practice. (Likely, the few 10 machines infected were intentionally crippled by their admins.)
Bear in mind, Windows 7 is an OS from 2009, 12 years ago. It's ancient from a computer security standpoint.
Whether you are personal or corporate, you probably should be running either Windows 10, or choose an alternate operating system entirely like OS X or Linux.
this feels like it should be opt-in and not opt-out
we have communal low bandwidth wifi in my area following openwireless.org ideals. That requires trust from both parties. This is trust I couldn't have in Amazon/FB/Google to not fuck me over with a "free" service they provide
love this comment. this is so true, not just with Amazon, but with all the major tech garbage out there. I wish there were other options, I'd pay significantly more for a phone that isn't a tap that walks with me everywhere I go.
so true, I ended up going a "dumb phone" for my day to day and have just started to tell people I only check email from work. I think it confused more than pissed anyone off. I tried to have back my work phone but still need to take calls when not physically in the office on a work day.
While I love the idea of the librem5, I don't love it $1200 more than my dumb phone.
"You are might curious to know if it is allowed? And I must say that this is completely allowed!"
I feel like this would make a great corporate logo for a discount legal firm on It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia that Charlie would start when high on Elmer's glue.
I like this as an option. When i did engage initially with Twitter, I found tweetdelete useful in culling tweets that were over 14 days old and nukereddit was useful in cleaning up the same.
Having nuked/deleted/closed all my accounts has had the same outcome with less work.
I dont have controversial opinions or political posts. Still on both platforms would get people shitposting/linking to a 4 month old tweet/comment because it was a hot topic again for 48 hours.
TLDR: a tale of over consumption and greed and eventually theft. I grew up poor. I am comfortable now. We never lived in famine/feast mode (which writer clearly refers to and embodies). We all fought against wastage or excess. The writer clearly has not in this story. And made the choice to exploit her employers trust by walking out of the business with a $350 pair of headphones, feeling justified by having been poor once.
Awful example.
"What if marketers can build an infinite shithole of ads inside the virtual world instead of the physical? Wait, hold on a second..."
this makes me glad for add blockers, VPNs, TOR, Canvas manipulators, piholes, and such. Sitting in front of a friends TV for a coffee and the amount of advertising from the moment she turns her TV on (the damn thing has adverts on its menu bar...) and then the sprawling chaos of attention grabbers from free to air tv and finally youtube itself. Thankfully I saw the recently uploaded and monetised video her sister put on line including its 5 seconds of advertising at the start and 15 seconds of unskippable advertising 25 seconds before the video finished.
I ask as even at home, my different devices all use the same browser/extensions, VPN and browsing habits. I use established FOSS where possible and the only problems I have had since Windows 98 are from data breaches (nothing I could have prevented with different OS/software).
Or are we talking about business/corp usage?