All Microsoft Updates Phone Home

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."

Comments

As I said before about the WGA piece

[Master of Transhuman]

Microsoft is directly identifying your MACHINE, if not YOU personally.

But we don't know that they aren't identifying YOU personally. Maybe they are, depending on what other data mining they are doing internally. The point is, we do not KNOW.

Maybe they don't care to identify you personally UNTIL they want to at some point in the future - maybe to sell your machine info to the RIAA in the event that your DRM use is suspect.

Maybe they don't care to identify you personally but are intent on TAGGING your machine as a potential pirate based on your WGA refusal.

The bottom line is that Microsoft does NOT need this mass of information about each and every one of 900 million machines in order to do their business of selling functional software.

That's BULLSHIT.

Microsoft is doing this for OTHER reasons which are irrelevant to the performance of the primary function and VERY relevant to sucking every last dime out of people's pockets for the benefit of Bill Gates.

Like I said yesterday - put this paranoid, greed-sucking ASSHOLE out of business! NOW!