So, let me get this straight: A bunch of autistic nerds on the internet are raging about the Windows 10 NSA ties, and the adware? They are actively going after the MOST technical and lofty explanations as to why this is evil, yet some of these things may not even apply to them.
"The Five Eyes, often abbreviated as FVEY, are an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. "
"The "Five Eyes" community is part of an extensive alliance of Western democracies sharing signals intelligence with each other. These allied countries include NATO members, other European democracies such as Sweden, and allies in the Pacific, in particular Singapore and South Korea."
en.wikipedia.org
References 3 and 10, respectively.
Further down:
Unlike the "second party" members (that is, the Five Eyes themselves), "third party" partners are not automatically exempt from intelligence targeting. According to an internal NSA document leaked by Snowden, "We (the NSA) can, and often do, target the signals of most 3rd party foreign partners."
Same link, reference 43.
So basically, if you live inside those countries, the worst you have to worry about is adware collecting data on you for targeted advertisements and product optimization. The only time you are going to get fucked by the NSA is when you do as the following:
theregister.co.uk
You guys are as bad as the Lincucks screaming about SystemD and how it will be the end of Linux. Christ. Brand loyalty makes you all morons.
