Dr. Watson's Longhorn Makeover Raises Eyebrows

[ronjor]

{QUOTE-> Russ Cooper, founder and editor of the NTBugtraq security mailing list, was among the first to raise privacy concerns. <-QUOTE}
Story (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1822142,00.asp)

[Notok]

Interesting.. it seems like the more I hear about Longhorn, the less excited about it I become. The idea of someone being able to cause a DoS and then intercept the report to see what all is on your system seems pretty signifigant, even if you can disable it :(

[diginsight]

Hmm, I still remember this CIAC information bulletin M-005c: Office XP Error Reporting May Send Sensitive Documents to Microsoft (http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/m-005.shtml)

See also Microsoft Data Collection Policy (http://oca.microsoft.com/en/dcp20.asp)

Edit: added MS Data Collection Policy