* Posts by Saatdhann

3 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Sep 2016

'Windows 10 destroyed our data!' Microsoft hauled into US court

Saatdhann

Upgrading to WIN 10 is a disaster.

I took the option to upgrade with 3 PC's. Within a few minutes of looking at this distasterous product on all 3 PC's I discovered a wide range of faults and failures including such as killing the internet, disabling programmes, altering configurations etc..

2 PC's took about 20 minutes each to install WIN10 but my main PC took over 7 hours so I knew it was going to be a disaster. It did serve to identify that the upgrade package was filled with faults.

In all three cases I chose to do a roll back. In all three cases the roll back was a total failure to such an extent I had to reinstall backup WIN7 OS's.

Of course, because it was Windows, there was 100% chance it would fail to update properly and a 100% chance it wouldn't be able to roll back successfully which is why I did the backups. (Why do I do OS backups? Because on dozens of tests the WIN restore programme has proved totally incapable of restoring. In fact I've never gotten a successfully restored comment from WIN which is why WIN restore is disabled on all my PC's.)

I have absolutely no doubt that they can perfom an upgrade in a court room to almost any PC and that upgrade will have major destructive flaws. And if they roll back it will be a PC full of bugs. So any comment from Microsoft will easily be proven false.

I think the phrase "I had a successful upgrade" could be attributed to not knowing enough about PC's to be able to offer a reliable comment.

Microsoft thought of the children and decided to ban some browsers

Saatdhann

Another reason to avoid WIN 10 like the plague!

Why is Microsoft determined to make every new itteration of Windows worse than the previous one?

Don't get me wrong, they've had heaps of practice so they are highly skilled at it.

We're forced to have all their stupid little folders, were forced to have their stupid "links", "favorites" "libraries".

After 15 years they managed to create a search system that's worse than WIN3.1 which has you watching the green line of death which can crawl across the window over 2 minutes to change the drive using an I7 chip whereas it would have been instantaneous with WIN3.1 and a 286 chip.

We are now moving to USB 3.1 after a decade of USB3 and Windows still hasn't a clue how to recognise a USB3 from a USB2. I connect a USB3 device with a USB3 cable to my USB3 only PC and Windows tells me it could run faster if I connected it to a USB3 port.

The fact is, Windows is and always has been a failure that needed re-writing but Microsoft has spent 2 decades trying to cover it up. With Vista and every itteration after it, Microsoft started changing all the settings to hide them so users couldn't find them, not to protect the user but because the OS is so unstable it falls over if you do anything to it. Add to that, adding spyware.

I assume this banning of other internet browsers in WIN 10 is just another attempt to both save the system from falling over and because it's a lot harder to spy on someone using an alternate browser.

Am I wrong? We have whole industries set up to overcome Windows failures: Anti-virus companies, Registry repair companies, companies to do hard drive maintenance and backup (because WIN restore never worked). Companies to change or remove Windows settings, alternate internet browsers, alternate explorers, alternate search engines, alternate email agents. All because, as I see it, Windows is a failure.

WIN10 lasted 5 minutes on my PC. Why? Settings failed, programmes didn't work, a stupid and childish layout, an overwhelming persuit of spying. As I pointed out to Microsoft when I removed it: "You have finally managed to reach the level of "Not even for free" with your OS. There is simply too much that needs changing before it's useable." Fortunately I had an OS backup because their programme to revert to the previous WIN7 version destroyed it.

My point: I doubt there has been anything done to the users benefit in the past several itterations of Windows. Everything you see for your benefit has an underlying: Not for your benefit but for Microsofts benefit. Don't risk it.

FBI Director wants 'adult conversation' about backdooring encryption

Saatdhann

Backdoor encryption a pointless public fund wasting exercise.

How do they expect to catch any criminals if they are so dumb?

An adult conversation about backdoor to encryption?

No adult is going to discuss backdoor encryption because it is over, past, done, finito, the horse has bolted, the end.

We don't need evidence, we know why they want it so why have these fools been wasting public funds looking for it?

We all have programmes with no backdoor that are beyond the capacity of anything but quantum computers to decrypt.

What does the FBI want or think is going to be done? We'll all dump our current programmes and buy a new one with a backdoor? Maybe they should consider putting the drugs they collect into evidence instead of using them?

Something like CipherShed is free Open Source and if the FBI want to backdoor it all they'll do is shift it offshore, keep it going and there's nothing the FBI will ever be able to do about it.

The FBI can't control overseas programmes.

What's more is that the main thing they want to stop is terrorism, no terrorist is going to buy a backdoor encryption programme to help out the FBI, that's why they use encryption. They may as well have asked the Germans to given them the plans to the enigma system.

Even if they tried to ban everything encrypted by scanning emails, they'd still fail because people would simply write the encrypted document and hide it in a photo using stenography

If the FBI had any brains at all they would have tried to do something before AES but they didn't. Now they are going to have to live with it forever.

But seriously, with the advent of computers encryption was inevitable and that it would defeat the FBI without them having any hope of defeating it was also inevitable.

My advice to the FBI: Stop wasting public funds on a fruitless exercise, there's nothing you can achieve.