Comments on: The Microsoft Botnet Goes Bonkers and ATMs Running Windows Spew Out Cash http://techrights.org/2015/10/01/microsoft-botnet-vista-7/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Neel Gupta http://techrights.org/2015/10/01/microsoft-botnet-vista-7/comment-page-1/#comment-291942 Thu, 08 Oct 2015 05:23:50 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=85118#comment-291942 Windows reporting to and updating from an external site named NSAtc.net is known. Interesting article by me summarizing the ´Windows´ situation:
http://scn.sap.com/blogs/Eternal.Entropy/2015/09/10/platform-dependablity-trust

As of this Win7 update, we now know that, MS is not the one delivering these updates, NSA is. (atleast some of them)
Windows 10 goes one step further: forced update from NSAtc.net servers.

So, David Sugar (dev. of GNU Telephony) hit the mark in saying, ¨forced updates is a front door for govt malware and spying¨

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