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Microsoft controls the OS, they already can track activity of any userland program, can't they?

• prepend 5y ago
  I suppose they can, but that would be a new low to inspect the memory of their competitors processes to monitor traffic. With most chrome traffic SSL, I don’t think they could tell much from the network traffic. If Microsoft started doing this, it would be a lot of negative attention. Whereas Chrome users haven’t cared about logging stuff for years now.
  • kgeist 5y ago
    >With most chrome traffic SSL, I don’t think they could tell much from the network traffic. It's encrypted in transit, but it has to be decrypted to be meaningful to the end user and that's where they can eavesdrop, the kernel has full access to user memory and all syscalls, no? >If Microsoft started doing this, it would be a lot of negative attention They have a proprietary closed source kernel which can be reverse engineered by very few people outside Microsoft, I think putting a little backdoor there would be less noticeable than showing a message box to every user.