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Don’t tell me you haven’t put black tape over your computer’s camera lens!

Bill Gates

Philanthropist, progressive, Obama’s buddy. 

He is also an education advocate.  According to this he advocates the NSA’s education regarding all we do with MS software.

Per William Blum: In September 1999 it was revealed that NSA had arranged with Microsoft to insert special “keys” into Windows software, in all versions from 95-OSR2 onwards. An American computer scientist, Andrew Fernandez of Cryptonym in North Carolina, had disassembled parts of the Windows instruction code and found the smoking gun – Microsoft’s developers had failed to remove the debugging symbols used to test this software before they released it. Inside the code were the labels for two keys. One was called “KEY”. The other was called “NSAKEY”. Fernandez presented his finding at a conference at which some Windows developers were also in attendance. The developers did not deny that the NSA key was built into their software, but they refused to talk about what the key did, or why it had been put there without users’ knowledge. Fernandez says that NSA’s “back door” in the world’s most commonly used operating system makes it “orders of magnitude easier for the US government to access your computer.”

That is why you should be using open source software, operating systems (Ubuntu or Linux Mint for example) and apps.  Besides often being free the software is constantly being reviewed and updated by geeks.  Spyware would easily be seen and be made known to users. 

Microsoft is not your friend.  Add their name to the list: Apple, AT & T, Verizon, Yahoo, Facebook, Google…

Be seeing you