Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?!

[Richard Heathfield]

On 02/12/15 08:57, Juha Nieminen wrote:
> In comp.lang.c++ Steve Hayes <hayesstw at telkomsa.net> wrote:
>> You download things FROM a computer, you upload them TO a computer.
>
> It's a matter of perspective. If a hacker breaks into your computer and
> starts a download from somewhere else into your computer, isn't the hacker
> "downloading" things to your computer?

My understanding of the term has always been that you upload from a 
smaller device to a larger, and download from a larger device to a 
smaller. Thus, from your laptop you might *up*load data to a Web server 
or a mainframe, but you would *down*load data to your phone or tablet.

If the devices are of comparable size and power, you aren't upping or 
downing anything - you're just transferring data from one computer to 
another. I suppose we could say "crossloading"?

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