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Microsoft will now urge you to ditch local accounts on Windows 10
(www.xda-developers.com)
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this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2024
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The problem with any device having any internet access at all is that it is quite trivial for a program to establish a connection to a known server (malware can initiate it) and then having those servers send commands back to the computer, effectively having control over it.