I don't care what they use it for, what if i was using my paypal account during this preview? This is not funny. The internet has already become a big security hole when it comes to identity theft i don't need them selling my information on the internet.
If you are accessing something like your Paypal account or bank account using a Windows technical preview, then you are, quite frankly, a retard and have no right to complain about the consequences of your own stupidity. It's the same as accessing those accounts using an unencrypted http connection over unsecured wifi in an airport, or somewhere similar where anybody could be eavesdropping on the connection.
Yeah, that's flawed logic. If I am using a preview or not, how do they expect to get the information you claim they are really gathering, and yet ignore some of the most used functions of today.
Its kinda pointless if I can't use everything and see if theres an issue with say, the login function because of something their os does. Do they just ignore that? Of course not. Which means unless someone uses it and tests it works right, they won't know if its working right or not.
Imo, the keylogger should be able to be disabled, for this shit.
Again - if you are using the same password for the technical preview as you use for anything else important, then you are an idiot. You should use a new password - doesn't have to be secure, just one you don't use for anything else - for user accounts.
Seriously, you should be assuming any data you enter into the Windows technical preview - not just for Windows 10, but any version - is at risk of being stolen, whether Microsoft are logging keystrokes or not. It is, by definition, inherently buggy and insecure. That's why it's a technical preview, and not the final release. You should never expect it to keep any information secure, regardless of what the developers are doing.
They'd have to actually read the raw data. Most likely it simply gets passed through some parser.
This. It almost certainly does nothing more than anonymously aggregate the data, so the developers can see information such as how many people use a given hotkey in a given situation, or how many people try and use a hotkey in an application which doesn't support it, and that kind of thing. It probably also parses individual words and keeps an aggregate count of how common different words are, so the autocomplete can better correct errors.
