Windows 8 Gives Parents a Computer-Use Report Card

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List this under ‘Family Settings Gone Wild’. A new feature in Windows 8 will be incorporated into the upcoming ‘Preview Release’ slated to be available in early June, which will give parents a weekly recap of their kid’s online activity via email. I’m sure this will be a big hit with the kids, but at least it beats installing a keylogger. :D

“We expect you’ll find activity reports a great tool for teaching your kids about responsible computer use,” writes Phil Sohn of Microsoft’s Family Safety team.
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So instead of a parent needing to install a logger, the system is built directly into the functionality of the OS. Something tells me the logging default will be set to on and even if you turn it off many updates will still turn it back on as part of the update process. Hooray for giving MS your full browsing history.
 
Correction and Addendum: the bottom image also shows what programs were used on the computer itself. Hooray for full snooping with info being handed to MS. And of course it will be cloud based so that the data can be shared, sold, or stolen on a whim.
 
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Teenyman45 said:
So instead of a parent needing to install a logger, the system is built directly into the functionality of the OS. Something tells me the logging default will be set to on and even if you turn it off many updates will still turn it back on as part of the update process. Hooray for giving MS your full browsing history.
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Teenyman45 said:
Correction and Addendum: the bottom image also shows what programs were used on the computer itself. Hooray for full snooping with info being handed to MS. And of course it will be cloud based so that the data can be shared, sold, or stolen on a whim.
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I'll get the tinfoil hats ready!

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Built in algorithms and systems for tracking and surveillance. Slap a standard back door on there.

Could you imagine a Windows 8 update super Tuesday patch:

"A security issue has been identified that could allow an authenticated remote attacker to compromise your system and gain access to activity reports which logs all of your actions on the terminal."

In the future when cloud computing is going to be forced as the only way to use a computer, somebody will say "this cloud computing system is bad for privacy, we will be tracked and surveilled". Some clown will then come forth and claim "You've been tracked and surveilled all this time on Windows/Mac computers, what's the big deal?"

Microsoft and other companies put users in situations now that compromise their security and privacy, so that in the future they can claim that it's been done all along and to not put up a resistance.
 
oopspowsurprise said:
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"A security issue has been identified that could allow an authenticated remote attacker to compromise your system and gain access to activity reports which logs all of your actions on the terminal."

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Why would hackers need to wait for Microsoft to come out with this capability to log your activities? They can already do this with any security hole found with the system. All they need to do is to drop a keylogger into your system.
 
bbqrooster said:
Why would hackers need to wait for Microsoft to come out with this capability to log your activities? They can already do this with any security hole found with the system. All they need to do is to drop a keylogger into your system.
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What is a keylogger? key-logger. Log key-strokes.

Where is this notion of building a profile, a report, of your activities within a key-logger? The article states that Microsoft's software will record how much time an application is running; record web-searches; handle application restrictions; set up control mechanisms online...

A key logger just logs key strokes. If it does more than this, then it's something else; another classification.

Serious privacy issues exist. People think that Google's Chrome browser, that records your web activities, is bad on privacy, but Microsoft's software is built into the operating system. If the operating system is like the foundation to your home, Microsoft has built weak points into it from its creation.

They create the weak points and then they'll come forward in the future proposing improved security; which is ridiculous since they created the weak points to begin with.
 
My 12 year old has K9 Web Protection installed on her computer that does this already. Nice to know it'll be built into Windows 8. If Microsoft does this, it might cause third party to up their game and release something with even more features.
 
Vista had a form of this, and in 7 it was available in Windows Live. The difference is in 8 it's integrated since live is going away.
 
Ryokurin said:
Vista had a form of this, and in 7 it was available in Windows Live. The difference is in 8 it's integrated since live is going away.
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Ah, that is what I thought. But now the kids will have to get scared more, updates via email haha
 
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