> This is not a useless feature. Yes, it helps Microsoft, and it helps The Powers That Be advance their goal of total information awareness to maximize their s

> This is not a useless feature. Yes, it helps Microsoft, and it helps The Powers That Be advance their goal of total information awareness to maximize their security and power and be unaccountable. As a bonus, the harm it does to users is hard to see and hard to reason about, so the genuine proponents and their useful-idiot accomplices throughout the tech (and political) world have been very weakly opposed in advancing the pervasive surveillance agenda.