Holy Shit. That should be illegal. All it needs is one rogue employee to potentially steal trade secrets? And dont tell me MS employees never go rogue after the recent events...
The behavior documented there is on FIRST run of a new executable.
You can like that behavior or find it unacceptable, but the issue in OP is not that, it was applying to executables that had already been launched plenty of times on the machine.
Microsoft Windows also uploads your private exe’s, and then runs them on Microsoft servers:
https://medium.com/sensorfu/how-my-application-ran-away-and-...
Holy Shit. That should be illegal. All it needs is one rogue employee to potentially steal trade secrets? And dont tell me MS employees never go rogue after the recent events...
Surely it's against copyright law
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TL;DR: It's an option that can be disabled, unlike on Mac. Also doesn't lock up your PC if Apple's network is having a bad day.
Is this how we look for the next Stuxnet?
wait what, how?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23281564
The behavior documented there is on FIRST run of a new executable.
You can like that behavior or find it unacceptable, but the issue in OP is not that, it was applying to executables that had already been launched plenty of times on the machine.
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