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Subject: Re: Very dangerous hacking ? Surprising relationship between cygwin
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Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 13:53:28 -0600
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From: Brian Inglis via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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On 2020-05-11 12:35, David Macek via Cygwin wrote:
>> To conclude, Microsoft spy and register all sites you access, cygwin.com
>> in particular. I hope only with Edge, but I am not sure of that.
> 
> Unless I missed something in your report, I cannot agree with your
> conclusion. *Windows* storing something in the registry does not imply
> *Microsoft* receives or processes that information.

It does unless you uncheck all the boxes that say they can: log and ship a
record of everything you access and do on the system and in each product!
They may also still claim rights to use anything you create using any of their
products.
I use ungoogled Chromium stable builds as Google, Mozilla, and MS, are as bad as
FB, LIn, etc. which I avoid like the plague they are.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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