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Re:German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry anal... by hnmonkey on Sunday November 25, 2018 @08:05PM (#18530208)
Not saying that this is carrying anything malicious at all, but there's certainly a chance that a tool to clear out telemetry or something else critical in the bowels of the OS is sending info back to that group now or can be malicious. Just a friendly warning to be weary about these types of applications.
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Re:German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry anal... by solarkraft on Monday November 26, 2018 @02:41AM (#18531748)
This would be easy to detect. It's a popular tool made by a German company. I think someone would've found out by now.
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Re:German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry anal... by thg on Monday November 26, 2018 @06:10AM (#18532493)
The BSI is a federal office dedicated to IT security, not a company. It's more or less the German NSA, just without the spying part. That's done by other offices.
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Re:German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry anal... by bmn__ on Monday November 26, 2018 @08:26AM (#18533134)
GP is talking about https://www.oo-software.com/en/company
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Re:German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry anal... by thg on Monday November 26, 2018 @05:58PM (#18537636)
Oh, that makes sense. Totally went past me when I commented. Thanks for pointing that out.
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