Pumykins, you want no one to address you, but you want to be able to keep making posts. LOL. The internet doesn't work like that. If you post in a public place, then you're inviting a response. The only way to NOT get a response is to NOT POST.

I asked ages ago what exactly it was that Microsoft was mining from me, and you still haven't told me. What are they getting? Specifically. More to the point, what are they getting that every single organization that has ever accepted my credit card has not been getting (and been getting now for decades)? 

If you're concerned about the NSA, you had better believe that open source OSs are completely compromised. You don't think the NSA has programmers adding code to it when they are freely able to? Sure, it's open, so people would be able to vet that code, wouldn't they? Yeah. Exactly as they were able to vet the code that brought us shellshock and that had compromised servers since 1989. That's a very long time for every server using those packages to be vulnerable to intrusion from a code error that the programmer wasn't even trying to hide. Were you even alive in 1989?

Whoever has been telling you that open source is so secure is either quite gullible themselves, hasn't heard of Edward Snowden, or is working for the government. Or is GCHQ issuing you a paycheck? You can be honest with us. We won't judge you for it. :D

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