Microsoft To Add A Black Box To Windows 514
An anonymous reader writes "According to ZDNet, Microsoft plans to add the software equivalent of a 'black box' flight recorder to Windows. According to the article, 'The tool will build on the existing Watson error-reporting tool in Windows but will provide Microsoft with much deeper information, including what programs were running at the time of the error and even the contents of documents that were being created.'" Commentary available via C|Net as well.
try again... (Score:4, Informative)
the prison guard talking to/about paul newman
http://imdb.com/title/tt0061512/quotes [imdb.com]
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Re:Not on my system you don't (Score:5, Informative)
And it wouldn't even surprise me that, hidden somewhere in there, there's a license agreement that mentions that you give all the rights to the content you send to Microsoft somehow, or give them an unlimited royalty-free license... just like you do everytime you attach a file on Hotmail.
From the Hotmail Service Agreement :
Re:What's In Your Box? (Score:5, Informative)
and/or
Administrative Tools, Services, stop and disable Error Reporting service
Re:What's In Your Box? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Not on my system you don't (Score:4, Informative)
Oh, and said virus could also easily access any unencrypted file on your system, and dumping your pagefile or info currently in memory would be pretty trivial.
Point: if you're worried about this enabling a virus to invade your privacy, then I'm sorry to burst your bubble but a virus can invade your privacy pretty easily already.
Re:What's In Your Box? (Score:3, Informative)
Easy to install [linux.com] and configure. [tomsnetworking.com]
Pretty well documented, [m0n0.ch] too.
I repalced Astaro with m0n0wall [m0n0.ch], and have most of the features I used - minus some of the application proxies.
I have a tor [eff.org] installation on the box - easy to set-up with privoxy [privoxy.org], after i added Perl to the m0n0 mix (big as the rest of the distribution!)
There are some add-ons, [xs4all.nl] too.
Re:Shouldn't that be illegal? (Score:2, Informative)
"This application crashed. Would you like to send the error and additional information to the developers?"
[yes] [no]
And as the article states, the user will have the choice to completely turn off this feature; Windows XP and 2k also have the option to turn off this error reporting.
Re:Privacy on the job (Score:3, Informative)
doesnt the crash dump tool say "no personal data transmitted"?
The way it works is after submitting a problem, if there's recognizable issues it asks if you want to use OCA and if you choose Yes, it opens a web page in IE and tells you what happened. You can link OCA activity to your Passport to help keep track of it and a record of your problems.
Doesn't always work, but it's nice when it does.
Blackbox = UNIX core dump (Score:3, Informative)