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Why would they need to decrypt it? Surely it would be easier to reverse whatever is encrypting it and dump it out in the clear? Perhaps the EFF could request th
by superflyguy 10y ago
Why would they need to decrypt it? Surely it would be easier to reverse whatever is encrypting it and dump it out in the clear? Perhaps the EFF could request that Microsoft open source or otherwise explain the process that produces the data.
- kardos 10y agoIf you can determine a way to intercept the pre-encrypted "telemetry" data, then we'd have the ability to verify Microsoft's claims about what they are transmitting. At the moment, we only have Microsoft's claims, and they are unverifiable.
- infogulch 10y agoCould we not reverse-engineer the machine code that generates this data?
- peatmoss 10y agoAnd people claim that making Linux work is hard. Man, making Linux / BSD do what I want seems trivial compared to making Windows / OSX not do what I don't want.
- superflyguy 10y agoThat's why I said to reverse the code that produces the data, right?