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At this point it's moot to me.

Privacy concerns may well be overblown if one were able to objectively assess facts. Perhaps Windows 11 is the most secure OS Microsoft have ever produced :)

But I would still not use or trust it, for reasons the frog would not ride on the scorpion's back, no matter how desperately it wants to cross the river.

I've lived long enough to witness all of Microsoft's shenanigans, the hostile takeovers, the insults to free software, the lies, the threatening behaviour, the bribery, court cases, criminal convictions and fines. Insomuch as a company can be, Microsoft are unethical to the core. Indeed they are the paradigmatic untrustworthy company.

If you were to offer me a water-tight mathematical formal proof that Microsoft's code was secure and private, I would still choose to use to use something else.



I think you mean the frog should not give the scorpion a ride on its back.

Frog on top of a scorpion is a recipe for flat scorpion.


Damnit your're right. And gingerbread men shouldn't carry foxes on their backs either. I get confused. :)


> Perhaps Windows 11 is the most secure OS Microsoft have ever produced :)

Security != Privacy


Security can lead to privacy. It's not just Microsoft that will get access to your data if the operating system is not secure in the first place.


No, but security can provide privacy and privacy may provide security.




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