Re: Microsoft's WGA spyware again!

In article <e2v#QW1PIHA.5980@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, jeff@xxxxxxxx
says...
I do not mind MS checking that my Windows is genuine before providing me
with the updates. What I do not want is WGA calling MS at "other times"
(as it is reputed to do) when I am not knowingly connecting to MS for
updates or anything and sending who knows what information about my PCs.
That is the spyware behavior that caused a public uproar and made MS
stop forcing WGA in 2006. Now they have decided to again force it on
its customers.

And since you've never had a clue as to what the OS is doing at any
other time in your entire history, why complain now?

MS has been monitoring and checking for decades, any way they could, and
it's not going to stop, even Linux systems phone home, so you're just
going to have to accept it or stop using computers.

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