Re:WindowsLies/BlockWindows
by mindcrash on Friday November 06, 2015 @03:04AM
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It doesn't block access to windowsupdate.com, it only blocks access to telemetry ingestion points, and seems to hide the updates which patches the code required to access them into windows 7/8 so they will never get installed (and uninstall them if they are)
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So they don't trust Microsoft enough to let them collect core dumps, but they trust Microsoft enough to let them run arbitrary code on their machine…?
Maybe people fear that personal data might show up in the collected minidumps? Doesn't sound unreasonable.
Sure. But you still allow Microsoft to dump your entire RAM to an unrelated web server by letting them install random updates.
...which requires active malice on part of Microsoft.
Whereas automatic upload of core-dumps even under normal non-attack operating conditions might even be forbidden by law when, for example, working with sensitive personal or otherwise classified data.