Reviewing Microsoft's Automatic Insertion of Telemetry into C++ Binaries
https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/06/visual-cpp-telemetry
The ensuing controversy and conversation about the discovery
of this function led to a response from Microsoft's Steve
Carroll, Development Manager for the Visual C++ team. First
and foremost in his response is the unequivocal statement that
this functionality will be removed in Visual Studio 2015's
Update 3. Carroll goes on to explain Microsoft's thought
process behind including this functionality ...
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The big problem here is that Microsoft didn't bother to tell anyone
they were doing this!
--Lauren--
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