Re:Reviewing Microsoft's Automatic Insertion of Telemetry in...
by joe_the_user on Thursday June 09, 2016 @02:39PM
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1) I want to control what my binaries look like.
2) The article itself essentially makes the same point - the problem is unneeded debug statements are being inserted into release builds. The article mentions that Microsoft promises to fix this.
3) Sure, this sounds harmless, one shouldn't explain with bad intentions things that can be explained with incompetence. BUT, big but, in Internet Security, we've seen many situations where chains of "unnecessary but harmless" stuff, incompetently inserted resulted in horrible things ("shell shock" was "it's standard and harmless to get this functionality by shelling out, what could possibly go wrong" etc).
2) The article itself essentially makes the same point - the problem is unneeded debug statements are being inserted into release builds. The article mentions that Microsoft promises to fix this.
3) Sure, this sounds harmless, one shouldn't explain with bad intentions things that can be explained with incompetence. BUT, big but, in Internet Security, we've seen many situations where chains of "unnecessary but harmless" stuff, incompetently inserted resulted in horrible things ("shell shock" was "it's standard and harmless to get this functionality by shelling out, what could possibly go wrong" etc).