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Have you got a source for the telemetry inside the compiled binary claim?

• yuriks 10y ago
  It was something a specific patch version (of Update 2, iirc) did which was blown way out of proportion. The CRT in that version sent two events on startup and shutdown to the windows event tracing/profiling framework. (Which show up in performance analysis tools like WPA.) People just latched onto the scary name.
  • oblio 10y ago
    To make things even worse (even funnier?), GCC also has something like this, I believe it's this feature: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Instrumentation-Options.html https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Instrumentation-Options.h...
    • dom0 10y ago
      Profiling is not telemetry. Telemetry implies that events are supposed to be transmitted off-site (tele + metry = remote + measuring). Profiling writes a local file with statistics.
• frik 10y ago
  http://www.slashdot.org/story/312289 http://www.slashdot.org/story/312289 https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/06/visual-cpp-telemetry https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/06/visual-cpp-telemetry Appearently they backed off, due to major outcry. The usual salami tactics. Nevertheless to this day developers compile binaries with the affected compiler version - still in release builds of various up-to-date software.
  • josteink 10y ago
    Seems you migt want to read this sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13974771 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13974771