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Re:My application ran away and called home from Redmond by LorenPechtel on Monday October 07, 2019 @10:56AM (#21181598)
I'm sure Microsoft is keeping a very close eye on what they are actually doing. Run them in a virtual environment, see what they do to the environment and what internet communications they make. When it's done destroy the environment.

If it tried to do something like a DDoS it would be identified as doing so and marked as malware, end of test.

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Re:My application ran away and called home from Redmond by bediger4000 on Monday October 07, 2019 @11:52AM (#21182325)
> I'm sure Microsoft is keeping a very close eye on what they are actually doing.

This seems like a questionable assumption. Microsoft is in the media for being "better" these days, but doing this at all seems like bad judgement. MSFT has lawyers to win a fair use case, I'll agree to that, but large corporations don't have a lot of incentive to minimize negative externalities, because of the lawyers and money for lawyers.

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Re:My application ran away and called home from Redmond by fortran77 on Monday October 07, 2019 @12:28PM (#21182759)
Oh c'mon. Microsoft takes security seriously and is genuinely trying to make sure Windows users aren't plagued with malware. And internally, Microsoft has a good track record of not having any data breeches.
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Re:My application ran away and called home from Redmond by Bartweiss on Monday October 07, 2019 @02:51PM (#21184550)
Even with utter cynicism, "Microsoft hosts DOS attack on Apple" is such a disastrous headline that it's well worth avoiding, and that's before getting into any liability for botching something like this.
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