It is known that major technology companies such as Microsoft use telemetry data. The most recent example is Windows 10. But it does not seem to be the only one. This time the company updated Visual Studio 2015 by adding telemetry to the C ++ binaries that are compiled by each developer. Best of all, the company added telemetry secretly to the Visual Studio 2015 code.
The issue arose in May at Reddit, όταν ένας χρήστης παρατήρησε ότι μια λειτουργία που ονομαζόταν "telemetry_main_invoke_trigger" υπήρχε μέσα σε κάθε compiled binary στα project of.
The user looked into it further and discovered that this happens at the Debug level and Release of binary builds, in Windows 7 and Windows 10.
Αυτό βέβαια που ανησύχησε περισσότερο τους χρήστες Reddit ήταν ότι δεν υπήρχε κάποια τεκμηρίωση ή κάποια έστω και μικρή αναφορά για αυτές τις κλήσεις, ούτε online, αλλά και ούτε στο ενσωματωμένο πακέτο τεκμηρίωσης του λογισμικού από την 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 to help investigate performance issues to improve quality. We apologize for raising the levels of suspicion that arose and even more by not providing documentation. It was just an oversight on our part."
So according to Steve Carroll's statement, telemetry is not a term that necessarily means "monitoring" but an alternative debugging system.
Are you better now?
