Reply to post: Re: About leakage --- ?

Sneaky Microsoft renamed its data slurper before sticking it back in Windows 10

a_yank_lurker

Re: About leakage --- ?

@Patpy - The best way to avoid leaking data is not to collect any more than you absolutely need. This is the first rule of operational security. No one can leak what they do not have or know. With data collection the same rule applies, what you do not need do not collect. If one does not have it, a hack on you will never expose it, you never had it.

Slurp (and others) fail to grasp that the best security policy for them is not protecting what you collect but what you do not collect from the start. The less one collects, the less one must secure. At most the OS or application vendor needs crash dumps to understand why a crash occurred.

However the complaints against Slurp is they are resetting user settings, deleting programs, and generally harassing users with W10. User alienation is their biggest risk with these tactics.

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