{"id":245,"date":"2007-04-28T12:53:40","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T20:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/?p=245"},"modified":"2020-08-22T12:54:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T20:54:53","slug":"windows-information-leakage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/2007\/04\/28\/windows-information-leakage\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Information Leakage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My current laptop is running Windows XP Media Center Edition. It came pre-installed, it wasn&#8217;t really my idea of a good time. (At the time, my understanding was that it would come with a free upgrade voucher to Windows Vista Business. This turned out to be Vista Home Premium instead. Either way, Vista will never be installed on this machine.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So MCE doesn&#8217;t really allow you to &#8220;lock&#8221; your desktop. That feature isn&#8217;t in the OS. Instead, when you attempt to lock the desktop with the WinKey-L combination, you get the &#8220;switch user&#8221; screen. OK, maybe not so bad, you still have to enter a password to get back in to the desktop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I find very annoying is that you can see how many unread emails the user has. Even if Outlook isn&#8217;t currently running! It&#8217;s things like this that make me want to switch to Thunderbird or some other non-MSFT email client.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/windows_reveals.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Considering I want to leave my laptop open, but locked, in my cubical while I am away from my desk, I really don&#8217;t like having information spewed out like this. It gets worse: if you hover the mouse over the current user icon, you can see their email address. Who thought that one was a good feature to implement?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know, I know, the glib answer is that I shouldn&#8217;t be running a non-business grade OS on a business laptop. Windows XP Professional would give me the security I want. It&#8217;s my fault for deciding I could live with Windows XP Media Center edition on my work machine. These are the trade-offs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My current laptop is running Windows XP Media Center Edition. It came pre-installed, it wasn&#8217;t really my idea of a good time. (At the time, my understanding was that it would come with a free upgrade voucher to Windows Vista Business. This turned out to be Vista Home Premium instead. Either way, Vista will never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-user-interface","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}