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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)
In addition... 2003-03-03
Anonymous (1 replies)
45MB is nothing... 2003-03-04
Anonymous
How much time do you think it'd take 500,000+ people to review 45MB of code? I'm not saying that over 500k people contribute to Mozilla, but Sourceforge alone has over 578,000 registered users. I'm certain a vast majority of the Mozilla codebase has been read (and understood) by a lot of people, some of which would be very vocal if they saw something "fishy" in the code. This is part of what bugtraq exists for -- to keep vendors aware that their products are being scrutinized on *many* different levels.

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