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Re:Reviewing Microsoft's Automatic Insertion of Telemetry in... by 0x0 on Thursday June 09, 2016 @01:14PM (#11870744)
It's new news that they are now removing it.

But even while they changed their minds, with a display of lack of judgment like this, who will trust their compilers anymore?

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Re:Reviewing Microsoft's Automatic Insertion of Telemetry in... by MaulingMonkey on Thursday June 09, 2016 @05:18PM (#11872470)
> who will trust their compilers anymore?

Me.

Microsoft has some real issues with regards to privacy, security, and performance. An ETW event on main entry/exit is none of the above.

It's worth yanking from Microsoft's POV because "Telemetry" is a big bad scary word, but from my POV it's a pointless distraction from actual privacy, security, and performance concerns.

C'est la vie...

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Re:Reviewing Microsoft's Automatic Insertion of Telemetry in... by plorkyeran on Thursday June 09, 2016 @01:33PM (#11870899)
No, it's also old news that they're removing it, considering they announced that a whole three days after people started complaining.
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Re:Reviewing Microsoft's Automatic Insertion of Telemetry in... by cremno on Thursday June 09, 2016 @01:34PM (#11870905)
>new news

The linked comment was posted 29 days ago. That's not really new but then again some people might not be aware of it or the whole thing.

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