June 12th 06, 12:14 AM
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Microsoft Changes WGA Following Spyware Allegations
Ghostrider wrote:
kurttrail wrote:
Tom Willett wrote:
http://www.informationweek.com/inter...leID=188703441
LOL! Instead of phoning home every day, MS is changing it to every
14 days!
Whoopy-do!
Now that the CIA has a real spymeister as its Director, maybe
Microsoft has to make good at being a legal, US Monopoly, as
sanctioned by Bush and friends. Reports at 14-day intervals
make for easier analysis of snooping. Perhaps a kind of payback
for the lackadaisical enforcement of the consent decree by DoJ?
Besides, what kind of spin is this?
"Microsoft said the phone-in feature is to check for updates and
is a kind of safety feature in case Microsoft has to suddenly disable
the program. The latter scenario would occur if the program, for
example, started to report pirated versions of Windows XP on computers
that had legitimate copies. No other information is passed on to
Microsoft through this feature, the company said."
There are already a number of false negatives, countered by
MGADiag.exe.
And not one report of MS disabling WGA remotely.
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Peace!
Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."
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