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Vista is Watching You

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the also-up-is-higher-than-down dept.

greengrass writes "Are you using Windows Vista? Then you might as well know that the licensed operating system installed on your machine is harvesting a healthy volume of information for Microsoft. In this context, a program such as the Windows Genuine Advantage is the last of your concerns. In fact, in excess of 20 Windows Vista features and services are hard at work collecting and transmitting your personal data to the Redmond company."

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  1. Re:Egomanical monitoring of the populace? by Anonymous+Brave+Guy · · Score: 5, Informative

    The point being made earlier in the thread was that this doesn't always work, because the IP addresses for certain services (Windows Update is one, IIRC) are hard-coded and the hosts file is never checked by Windows when resolving these addresses.

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