Increasing concern over Windows "spying" technologies has brought a host of free tools claiming to disable them, but are they safe to use? It’s often hard to tell, as developers don’t clearly explain what they’re doing. Ancile is easier to evaluate, at least for experienced users, because it’s just a Windows script -- open the files in your text editor of choice and it’s all there. The package is a fork of AEGIS with bug fixes, optimizations and some welcome new features. Here’s the developer’s list of what it does right now on Windows 7 and 8.x (it’s not for… [Continue Reading]