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All Microsoft Updates Phone Home

Posted by samzenpus on from the always-watching-you dept.

juct writes "In the wake of heise Security's report on the garrulous WGA Notification, Microsoft has now supplied additional details on the data sent. They have revealed to developers that apparently all updates relay information to the company in Redmond."

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  1. Re:All updates relay Information... by rucs_hack · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    and what exactly can microsoft do with tens of millions of windows installs calling home constantly.

    Such a volume of information almost automatically prohibits targetting individuals, no strategy to target individuals could work. The most that could be hoped for is statistics from which new strategies to combat piracy could be developed.

    I think people take an ego centric view of this and don't like to see that theirs is just an insignificant particle of data in an ocean of information.