Microsoft .Net's impact to Automation Industry

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Some of us allow this, some of us don't. I do my level best, which is considerable, to keep automation and the Internet world entirely separate. Any MS product exposed to the outside world in any manner can be safely assumed to be compromised and accessed at will. Even offline documents are traceable to a particular machine by embedded ID.

Their master plan is to own all your data. This is no secret. Why there is no outcry or even whimpering objection is one of the great mysteries. People have you jump through all kinds of phony security hoops to access their public data, then leave everything they have on PC wide open to Redmond. And this is no secret either. Dell, for example, won't sell some Linux machines to the EU because they have no backdoor and the NSA has "suggested" they provide only MS products.

The only explanation I can think of for the continued use of MS products is the story of the frog that you put in cold water and light the fire under it. Since the change happens slowly, it will peacefully allow itself to be boiled. But you trust MS, don't you?

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