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Windows Update keeps tabs on all system software
John Leyden, The Register 2003-02-28

Evidence obtained by German hardware site tecChannel suggests a list of software installed on an XP machine is sent to Microsoft when users run Windows Update.

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In addition... 2003-03-01
hellz (1 replies)
This is why the Open Source movement is becoming so strong. There's no privacy concerns when you can view the entire source at will. M$ just never seem to learn. They say one thing, and steal something else. It's like when a patch was released for Media Player 8 (think it was 8). The agreement on the front of the patch pretty much said something along the lines of, "By agreeing to this license, you give us full administrative rights over your machine.".

Needless to say, Media Player is now uninstalled, and my Gentoo ISO is sitting right next to me.

--hellz

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In addition... 2003-03-03
Anonymous (1 replies)
45MB is nothing... 2003-03-04
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