[Magdalen] Computer help

[Grace Cangialosi]

OK, I was all set to upgrade, and then I noticed some small print.  It says
 "3GB+download, internet access fees may apply"  What does that mean? I
already pay for my internet--am I expected to pay more to use WIN10??

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 12:09 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> The cloud is not a cloud. It is a data farm on solid land somewhere.  Your
> access is controlled by your user name and password.  However, anything can
> be hacked, as we find.  The access of YOUR information will not motivate
> anyone to make much effort (assuming you do not have valuable, sensitive
> data in your stuff) The problem is that this is no small amount of data,
> and if one can figure out a ruse of some sort to defeat the encryption
> protocols, say an insider sells part or all of the encryption algorithm,
> and compromise all of the data, then all bets are off.  The data you had
> locked up in a steel safe suddenly is available to whomever can find or buy
> a way in.  It is not terribly likely that they will even care about your
> data or mine (see above caveat), but it is possible for a program to
> harvest info from millions of users at the same time, and if their interest
> is in getting money, then yes, that's a major issue. I never did figure out
> how my data was compromised a couple years ago. They cleaned out my
> checking account. If they play their cards right, you don't even know
> you've been hit til a month or so later.
>
> The best advice seems to be to follow all the precautions about how to
> choose hard to defeat passwords, and change them often.
>
> I think the whole notion of the cloud is brand new to all of us. The
> thieves are just getting started. When they make a major hack and
> compromise millions of users' data, then we shall see how secure the whole
> thing is. I could be right to say, it's only a matter of time. Or I could
> just be overly paranoid.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 7:05 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 2 questions:
> >
> > Can someone clarify and comment on the cloud and whether it eventually
> > comes with a cost.
> >
> > And with iPhones actually being little computers now increasing vastly
> the
> > number of Apple "computers" out on the world, aren't they more attractive
> > hack and virus magnets?
> > Lynn
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Jul 27, 2016, at 5:19 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I was as Mac as they get back in Quadra, SE, and Fat Mac early days,
> > but now my work world is Windows, so that's where I have to swim.
> > Windows 10, Office 365. Cloud, although hardly Cloud 9.
> >
> > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Sitting over here in Mac-land smiling.. I shouldn't say anything, I
> > guess,
> > > but I am SO glad I left Windoze all those years ago.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Scott R. Knitter
> > Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
> >
>



-- 
Grace Cangialosi
Ruckersville, VA

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