Microsoft once pushed an update that started uploading my data to OneDrive. I had no idea until I was kindly informed that my cloud storage was out of space.

At this point I would ALWAYS assume that anything I do on a Windows system is not completely private, and the only true way to make a PC secure from Microsoft is to air-gap it.

Also, this is completely ridiculous.

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ryandrake 3 hours ago | parent [-]

You basically have to treat all components of Windows as malware. Your personal threat model needs to include Microsoft as an attacker.

	▲	reactordev 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		At this point, I would agree. Microsoft Windows is now banned from my network.
	▲	mindslight an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I have a Windows VM with net access (through a consumer VPN) that I install software in, make sure it's all up to date and whatnot. To do any real work I then take a snapshot and run it on its own VLAN with the only reachable thing being my own samba server.