On 2006-07-27, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted something concerning:
> Even Microsoft's best friend can publish such a thing...
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> Windows Genuine Annoyance?
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> Privacy experts and PC users alike blast Microsoft's antipiracy tool
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>| A Microsoft program designed to thwart software piracy has instead
>| opened a Pandora's box of privacy concerns. PC users cried foul when
>| Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) software frequently phoned
>| home to Microsoft servers and apparently flagged some legitimate copies
>| of the Windows operating system as pirated. The incident spawned two
>| lawsuits and has raised concerns about what Microsoft is adding to
>| its software updates.
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> http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,126543,00.asp
They're not doing anything new to their software updates. They've been
putting in spyware and methods to break things for years. The "new"
thing that's occurring is that they're getting messier at it. Probably
because the underlying "OS" code is such a disaster that it's almost
impossible not to slip up.*
* That /is/ an assumption. Since nobody can look at the code to tell
whether or not that's the actual case, one has to go on the effect
for some evidence of the true situation. The effect in this (and in
other things) provides some mighty powerful clues.
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Windows doesn't have any bugs. It just develops random features.
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