This was a fun article to read. Yes Windows is more surveillance software than Android or Apple are - the article makes that case well at the end when talking about how tracking is more explicit and can be turned off on those.

But I'm struck with how dumb, or just lacking in paranoia, this seemingly successful and rich hacker is. First of all he's using Windows. Excuse me? Second he used that device to log into personal stuff like Snapchat and Facebook. And he posted a picture of himself at a hotel that they tracked.

I'm no hacker, but if I were, I'd treat devices as disposable surgical gloves, and I wouldn't touch Windows.