It is well known that large technology companies such as Microsoft χρησιμοποιούν δεδομένα τηλεμετρίας. Το πιο πρόσφατο παράδειγμα είναι το λειτουργικό της εταιρείας Windows 10. Όπως φαίνεται όμως δεν είναι και το μοναδικό. Αυτή τη φορά η εταιρεία ενημέρωσε το Visual Studio 2015, με την προσθήκη τηλεμετρίας στα C++ binaries που γίνονται compiled από κάθε developer. Το καλυτερο όμως είναι ότι η εταιρεία πρόσθεσε την τηλεμετρία κρυφά στον κώδικα του Visual Studio 2015.
The issue arose in May at Reddit, when a user noticed that a function called "telemetry_main_invoke_trigger" existed within each compiled binary in his projects.
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 the slightest mention of these calls, either online or in the built-in documentation package. software from Microsoft.
Let's mention that telemetry data is a very sensitive topic for users of Microsoft products, (and not only). It is a method that uses the company to know what the user of its products is doing 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?
