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by gambiting
55 days ago
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So like I said earlier, thank you for confirming that MS employees have no way of stealing data off my computer outside of information sent either as part of diagnostic info or hashed samples sent to anti virus services. There is no one at Microsoft who can just say "copy gambiting's entire documents folder and send it to us" (afaik). So no, MS employees can't just steal the data off my computer. If you want to be technically anal about this yes, what I type into my start menu is "data" too, sure, you are 100% correct. I don't consider that to be Microsoft employees stealing data off my PC. And that's not even me trying to excuse it - I'm just saying it's not what you initially presented it as. Going back to your original comment about not using Windows for "serious" work - none of the above stands in the way of serious work, especially given that every above behaviour is disabled by enterprise policy. I will agree with you that personal installations are different, but then we need to agree on the definition of serious work again. |
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For serious work, my philosophy is really regarding the attack surface, I'm mostly working in cybersec/privacy for the last decade and any data that leaves the machine is always a concern, a theoretical one and a practical one, especially if it's obfuscated. Anything that requires human trust to me is a concern (see for example lately the vulnerabilities steaming from npm dependencies, all about human). Privacy is important to me, I don't want anyone to know what I do with my devices (that includes my phones, which has no SIM inside to reduce correlation factor), this is by principle. I have 2 "realms" of work, one where I do accept (example with prompts to commercial LLM providers such as OpenAI...) that privacy and security is compromised, and the other realm where it's non-negotiable.
But I get your point and without being too extreme about it, I can agree that some of my takes are far fetch although they are valid, can I ask why you actually prefer to develop on Windows vs Linux (or MacOS), is it because of habits?