This week we revisit free upgrades from Win7 or 8 to 10 (which can still be done, a alert for users of HP SSDs, the complications which arise with international privacy treaties when end-to-end encryption might be threatened, the US government's formal permission to hack, a quick look at a particularly devastating Ransomware attack, more anti-tracking privacy happiness coming soon, by default, to Firefox, the never-ending headaches caused by Windows DLLs, an update on my "Joy of Sync" determinations, and a look at the way some Android multitasking features can and are being actively abused -- with Google's knowledge.