[loup-vaillant]

> For the record, I'm NOT comparing Microsoft to Big Brother.

I will: Microsoft is a big corporation who spies on its users to protect its interests. Incidentally, there are many other Big Brothers like them: Facebook, Google…

People should read some cyberpunk literature. Read William Gibson's Neuromancer, or play Android Netrunner. We're halfway there.

[at-fates-hands]

There's probably quite a few people who are unfamiliar when back in the day, they were working with Prodigy to verify anybody using Prodigy didn't have a counterfeit MS license on their PC.

Nothing ever happened to either company, and you'd be hard pressed to find an article on it, but MS has been snooping on their users for a long, long time.