Skydrive is spyware.

I get a kick out of Micro$oft installing the defaults to get people to
send up their files.

Canuck57 wrote:

I get a kick out of Micro$oft ...

I get a kick from jealous peons attempting callous insults through inane
use of character substitution.

... installing the defaults to get people to send up their files.

Oh yes, very detailed description there. Online storage: yep, quite the
surprise that it's goal is to "send up files".

On 10/26/2013 2:16 PM, Canuck57 wrote:

I get a kick out of Micro$oft installing the defaults to get people to
send up their files.

That was probably suggested by the National Security Agency that
Microsoft works with to keep your computer secure.



Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages

Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, Laura Poitras, Spencer Ackerman and
Dominic Rushe
The Guardian, Thursday 11 July 2013

Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to
allow users' communications to be intercepted, including helping the
National Security Agency to circumvent the company's own encryption,
according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian.

The files provided by Edward Snowden illustrate the scale of
co-operation between Silicon Valley and the intelligence agencies over
the last three years. They also shed new light on the workings of the
top-secret Prism program, which was disclosed by the Guardian and the
Washington Post last month.

The documents show that:

• Microsoft helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to address
concerns that the agency would be unable to intercept web chats on the
new Outlook.com portal;

• The agency already had pre-encryption stage access to email on
Outlook.com, including Hotmail;

• The company worked with the FBI this year to allow the NSA easier
access via Prism to its cloud storage service SkyDrive, which now has
more than 250 million users worldwide;

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...tion-user-data

Canuck57 wrote:

I get a kick out of Micro$oft installing the defaults to get people to
send up their files.

Users are always complaining about not having choices.
Change the default to local....the next o/s might not provide that choice.

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On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 21:13:56 -0400, ...winston wrote:
....the next o/s might not provide that choice.

Yup, very likely.

On 10/26/2013 9:13 PM, ...winston wrote:
Canuck57 wrote:

I get a kick out of Micro$oft installing the defaults to get people to
send up their files.

Users are always complaining about not having choices.
Change the default to local....the next o/s might not provide that choice.

How do you change the default to "local"? My computer is nagging me to
verify the account which I did once.

My problem with Windows 8.1 is many things are like Brigadoon and only
appear once every 100 days.

On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 08:22:24 -0400, Keith Nuttle wrote:

On 10/26/2013 9:13 PM, ...winston wrote:
Canuck57 wrote:

I get a kick out of Micro$oft installing the defaults to get people to
send up their files.

Users are always complaining about not having choices.
Change the default to local....the next o/s might not provide that
choice.

How do you change the default to "local"? My computer is nagging me to
verify the account which I did once.

Is this what you are looking for?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBDwfF37mwg

The most common route (though Registry edits are also floating around the
net).

Is to turn 'Off' the feature to 'Save documents to SkyDrive by default'
which will still default to your Document folder but not upload to online
SkyDrive.


Another option being circulated is shown below would relocate the SkyDrive
but that only changes where SkyDrive stores files and the location for
up/down sync of files with your online MSFT account SkyDrive.


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"Keith Nuttle" wrote in message ...

On 10/26/2013 9:13 PM, ...winston wrote:
Canuck57 wrote:

I get a kick out of Micro$oft installing the defaults to get people to
send up their files.

Users are always complaining about not having choices.
Change the default to local....the next o/s might not provide that choice.

How do you change the default to "local"? My computer is nagging me to
verify the account which I did once.

My problem with Windows 8.1 is many things are like Brigadoon and only
appear once every 100 days.

On 27/10/2013 6:22 AM, Keith Nuttle wrote:
On 10/26/2013 9:13 PM, ...winston wrote:
Canuck57 wrote:

I get a kick out of Micro$oft installing the defaults to get people to
send up their files.

Users are always complaining about not having choices.
Change the default to local....the next o/s might not provide that
choice.

How do you change the default to "local"? My computer is nagging me to
verify the account which I did once.

My problem with Windows 8.1 is many things are like Brigadoon and only
appear once every 100 days.

You can remove it but it takes putzing. Stupid installer doesn't set it
local once you uninstall Skydrive.

You need to go to the UI for user management and convert it to a local
account. And for apps that demand Skydrive/Live junk, uninstall them too.

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On 26/10/2013 1:47 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
Canuck57 wrote:

I get a kick out of Micro$oft ...

I get a kick from jealous peons attempting callous insults through inane
use of character substitution.

... installing the defaults to get people to send up their files.

Oh yes, very detailed description there. Online storage: yep, quite the
surprise that it's goal is to "send up files".

Why send our files to Micro$oft? Easier for NSA? While I don't do
anything illegal, I don't trust putting up my encrypted password files,
bank accounts, tax information, investment links and budget data, family
pictures and more up to Micro$oft to snoop.

I bought USB drives and a Passport drive for backup. As everyone knows
Micro$oft backup is hit or miss.

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good and other people pay for it. When the credit runs out and those
that pay for it leave, they can all share having nothing but
unemployment, debt and discontentment.

On 2013-10-27 9:33 PM, Canuck57 wrote:
On 26/10/2013 1:47 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
Canuck57 wrote:

I get a kick out of Micro$oft ...

I get a kick from jealous peons attempting callous insults through inane
use of character substitution.

... installing the defaults to get people to send up their files.

Oh yes, very detailed description there. Online storage: yep, quite the
surprise that it's goal is to "send up files".

Why send our files to Micro$oft? Easier for NSA? While I don't do
anything illegal, I don't trust putting up my encrypted password files,
bank accounts, tax information, investment links and budget data, family
pictures and more up to Micro$oft to snoop.

I bought USB drives and a Passport drive for backup. As everyone knows
Micro$oft backup is hit or miss.


Yup. If you don't want "them" reading it, don't load it onto "their"
computers. There's no such thing as the "cloud" as the buzzword is being
used today. All the "cloud" is, is a buzzword to make people feel airy
about putting files / docs / data / pics / etc. onto other people's
computers. If you don't think they aren't pouring over what is uploaded,
then you're naive.

WireTalk

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