Greg,
In the end, I might buy into your suggestion. It is novel. Yet, I fear
the DL of this 'tool' will be mandated to get a Win8 "OK to use."
response. And, post several hundred dollars just to purchase/load the
OS. Mother MS still gets to control what I may use on top by not
returning me an "OK to use" certificate. I do see many more issues
underneath this discussion.
MS needs to do their best job ATM, release their offer, and, then deal
with the future via their ULA and/or whatever internal 'protections'
they can program into Win8. They really need to stop policing Planet
Earth. Well, unless they really wish to drive everyone to a form/flavor
of Linux! JMHO.
Heck! There will be a Win9 sooner or later, correct?
Duncan
On 08/27/2012 15:57, Greg Sevart wrote:
I guess I wish they would do it offline - download a copy of a signed,
compressed "baddies" file and let the local system compare the hashes. Treat
it like AV signatures. I like the idea, but hate the implementation.
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At 09:13 PM 25/08/2012, Steve Tomporowski wrote:
http://gizmodo.com/5937649/windows-8-tells-microsoft-about-everything-y
ou-install-not-very-securely
I see the privacy issue, but that's the downside of security for people who
don't want to be responsible to figure out if an application is safe, they
have to give information to a third party to figure it out for them. I
think this might be a good idea, if MS does a good job of tracking the
crap/mal-ware out there.
T
