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by wormius 737 days ago
The fact there's now a central repo for it all. Scraping far more than just "credit card" and "passwords/logins" (personal details ever shown on your screen? Porn? Blackmail much? and don't give me the "if you've nothing to hide" spiel) People you connect to? Hey, now we can make a social graph. Contacts is one thing, but contents of chats? Let's add on more graph data. I mean, sure FB already does that, but there's legal avenues to pursue remedies(in theory). Here? What can you do but get pwned harder. Stop excusing MS for this poorly thought out feature. They're returning the old ways and should not be given sympathy til they prove they are committed to privacy and security (which this seems to go against after Nadella's "WE MUST MAKE SECURITY FIRST" dictate)
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The central repo is called the web browser. Porn is in your web browser's history. People you connect to is in your web browser's history. Content of your chats can be accessed using the cookies in your web browser's cookiejar.

If you are security-aware enough to avoid those issues, then you aren't using a closed-source operating system in the first place.

>If you are security-aware enough to avoid those issues, then you aren't using a closed-source operating system in the first place.

So what about everyone else?

Then they are going to have those issues regardless of recall.