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| Authored by: stegu on Sunday, August 26 2012 @ 05:57 PM EDT |
It is legal, because they tell you (in
fine print in an EULA that nobody ever
actually reads) that they are going to
do it, and you have the option of not
installing the "service". I'm sure it
takes some effort to find where to
disable it, and a lot of clicking through
"are you sure, we really suggest you do
not disable this", but purportedly, it
can be done, so they have their backs
covered, I'm sure.
That doesn't make it good, but it's
probably not outright illegal.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, August 26 2012 @ 06:26 PM EDT |
This a pretty standard app reputation system (google chrome and IE8+ already
have similar features already) - the idea is to be able to say to a user "I
haven't seen this filename/hash that you downloaded and tried to run before, are
you sure you want to open this?".
Your IP is then known by necessity - it's a TCP/IP connection, how could they
hide it? MS stated they're not storing IPs in the ars version of this story,
but who knows if that's true I guess.
The SSLv2 part of this is straight up FUD/nonsense though - this is using TLSv1.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, August 26 2012 @ 11:50 PM EDT |
because I won't be running it.
I'm also hoping to avoid having to buy it. Every time I am forced to buy yet
another useless copy of windows to get the hardware I want my blood pressure
goes up, which really isn't good for someone my age.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 27 2012 @ 12:31 PM EDT |
Every version of Winblows has gotten worse on privacy than the previous version,
and M$ is already touting that this version will be the most radical yet...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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