On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote: > > It used to be quite high in the beginning (maybe a percent or so). The > question is, what false positive rate is acceptable? If you're the one > who's critical information is inaccessible because of MS's mistakes, > then even 0.00001% is unacceptable. From an enterprise POV, having any > kind of kill switch in the software that I don't control is very very > bad, and potentially disastrous.
Is it a kill switch? I thought it just didn't allow updates and gave you a certain amount of time to work out your genuineness. This wouldn't affect getting your data off. I will confess ignorance here. Or are we talking about a slippery slope? What they COULD do? > No, it's crippled if MS makes a mistake and thinks you didn't purchase > it legitimately. You are certainly not guaranteed to be safe from > anything. Which it doesn't do very often and it isn't (at least according to my understanding) that crippled and about which you can presumably call some hotline and chat with them about the mistake. > I don't want my OS phoning home on a regular basis. I should be > innocent until proven guilty, not the other way around. > I thought that you had to prove it was yours when you installed it and whenever you updated. Is that not true? If it is then you are phoning home anyway. I don't know what to think about the innocent until proven guilty statement. It is their walled garden. I don't have a hissy fit after people ask to see my id card when I pay with my debit card just because it IS mine. I recognize that maybe folk could get their hands on it and I'm glad that at this store at least they wouldn't be able to use it. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
