• ViatorOmnium@piefed.social
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      20 hours ago

      Windows is very cheap if you don’t pay for it, and all the backdoors are a feature for the powers that be.

      • steelplatedmech@piefed.ca
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        17 hours ago

        Surely China can’t be fine with the US poking around their government computers? Or are they?

        I don’t understand how another country can use another hostile country’s closed operating system for sensitive material.

        • Kairos@lemmy.today
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          They are the same way the U.S. government is. Windows isn’t used for shit that’s actually important in either government.

        • KssioAug@piefed.zip
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          I would guess that Microsoft has to comply to Chinese privacy and data laws, AND that China’s firewall also might block a lot of the telemetry.

          I agree nonetheless. They should be using Linux a long time ago.

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      15 hours ago

      Honestly I thought Kylin would’ve been the default OS/ SOP in government computers