{"id":81,"date":"2007-07-03T13:50:08","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T03:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/07\/03\/microsoft-spying-on-you-because-they-can\/"},"modified":"2007-07-03T13:51:02","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T03:51:02","slug":"microsoft-spying-on-you-because-they-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/2007\/microsoft-spying-on-you-because-they-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft spying on you because they can!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t surprised when I read this. You may use the usual defense that &#8216;you&#8217;ll be fine if you have nothing to hide&#8217; but the BIG question is why should a private company (Microsoft) want to know your computers and hence your activities when it has nothing to do with them.  More to the point if you run a rival company why would you want them stealing you&#8217;re business secrets?  After all there is nothing to monitor them.  &#8211; Besides how are they ever going to innovate?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that all the movies and stories like Animal Farm and Metropolis are coming true and you are letting it happen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Forget-about-the-WGA-20-Windows-Vista-Features-and-Services-Harvest-User-Data-for-Microsoft-58752.shtml\">Softpedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t surprised when I read this. You may use the usual defense that &#8216;you&#8217;ll be fine if you have nothing to hide&#8217; but the BIG question is why should a private company (Microsoft) want to know your computers and hence your activities when it has nothing to do with them. More to the point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-vista"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}