It is known that large technological Companies όπως η Microsoft χρησιμοποιούν δεδομένα telemetrys. The most recent example is the company's operating system Windows 10. However, it seems that it is not the only one. This time the company updated Visual Studio 2015, with the addition of telemetry to the C++ binaries that are compiled by each developer. But best of all, the company added telemetry stealthily into the Visual Studio 2015 code.
The issue arose in May at Reddit, when a user noticed that a function called “telemetry_main_invoke_trigger” existed inside every compiled binary in project of.
The user searched for it more and discovered that this is happening at the Debug and Release levels of binary builds, Windows 7 and Windows 10.
Of course, what most worried Reddit users was that there was no documentation or even a little mention of these calls, ούτε online, αλλά και ούτε στο ενσωματωμένο πακέτο τεκμηρίωσης του software from Microsoft.
Let's mention that telemetry data is a very sensitive issue for users of Microsoft products, (and not only). It is a method the company uses to know what the user of his products does at all times.
Steve Carroll, one of the senior executives of the Visual Studio team, said:
"Our intention was benign (as always), our desire was to create a framework that would help investigate performance issues to improve quality. We apologize for raising the levels of suspicion that arose and even more so for not providing documentation. It was just an omission on our part. "
So, according to Steve Carroll, telemetry is not a term that necessarily means "monitoring" but an alternative debugging system.
Are you better now?
