NSA snooping is back in the headlines…more revelations about the data it gathers. According to story #1, an NSA employee can, “…with just a few clicks, obtain everything from phone numbers to e-mail addresses. The agency also can see e-mail content, full Internet activity, browser history, and an IP address. According to the files and Snowden, the NSA can essentially see everything a person is doing on the Internet without the need for a warrant.”
Our second story focuses on phone snooping and how NSA analysts listen to intercepted phone calls of American citizens without a warrant. I find all this quite disturbing.
Our third story tells you how to protect your privacy from not only the government, but from corporations who want to know everything you do in order to make more money. It’s a lengthy article, but well worth the read.
Do you remember a few months ago how Microsoft found it had no right to use the name “Metro” in Windows 8? Well its happened again…now Microsoft will have to change the name “SkyDrive” to something else. Seems a British company has taken the Redmond boys to court over the name…and won. Microsoft may need to fire some lawyers who are supposed to check out these things. Ridiculous!
And speaking of Windows 8, I am so close to dumping it off my laptop and installing Windows 7. This time my gripe is about backup. One of the great features of Windows 7 was the ability to make image backups of your whole system. I went to do that in Windows 8 and found that it was not there…or at least I thought it was not there.
Thanks to a little research on the Web, I found it, only hidden in a place you would never find and mislabeled. I would have discovered it without the help of the Web. I used it to backup my drive and it all went well. Why the good folks at Microsoft chose to hide and mislabel it, I will never understand. I will wait for the release of Windows 8.1 before I make my final decision on dumping it. But I sure dislike it even more than I thought I would.
Want to hear about another Microsoft misstep? The man in charge of creating the mess that is Windows 8, the megalomaniac Steven Sinofsky, was fired a few months ago. Now Microsoft is paying him $10 million not to work for Apple, Google, Amazon or other competitors. They should have saved their money and let him work for whomever he wants. Letting him loose in one of these other companies could potentially help Microsoft become relevant again.
Anyway, let’s get on with our reading, my friends. -JRC
Newly leaked NSA program sees 'nearly everything' you do
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Nokia Grows Frustrated With Microsoft's Pace In Windows Phone
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Microsoft to rename SkyDrive after losing trademark suit
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Apple and the fear of flopping
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