The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:14:16 +0000
> <1338180.0aM5VMxPLf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> __/ [ B Gruff ] on Thursday 08 March 2007 21:41 \__
>>
>>> It all seems quite harmless to me - I mean, if you've nothing to hide,
>>> you've nothing to fear, right? Right, commie???:-
>>>
>>> http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/86429
>>>
>>> "In the Privacy Statement of Windows Update Microsoft grants itself
>>> fairly far-reaching rights. Thus the information collected by the
>>> Redmond-based behemoth includes the computer make and model, version
>>> information for the operating system, browser, and any other Microsoft
>>> software for which updates might be available, Plug&Play ID numbers of
>>> hardware devices, region and language setting, Globally Unique
>>> Identifier (GUID), Product ID and Product Key, BIOS name, revision
>>> number, and revision date. By way of justifying Microsoft's approach,
>>> alexkoc writes that the EULA, likewise presented by the WGA installer,
>>> also covered the relaying of such information"
>>
>> NannySoft, not MicroSoft.
>>
>
> Hmm....the only problem with that moniker is that nannies
> are generally competent. :-) (Especially if they carry
> umbrellas, drop in during a windstorm, play around with
> a dancing chimney sweep, and leave when the wind shifts
> again... :-) )
>
> Though there was that au pair some years back...
>
I never had a nanny, I had five sisters instead, because we were poor and
having sisters was cheaper than hireing a nanny.
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