Micro$oft blijkt in Windows 98 een leuke "feature" te hebben ingebouwd. Als je Windows instaleerd en je registreerd het worden je gegevens + een uniek nummer naar Microsoft gestuurd. Hier ff een stukje uit het bericht :
This number, known as a Globally Unique Identifier, is sent to Microsoft along with name, address, phone number, plus demographic details and information on the hardware and software being used. Note that with the progressive tightening-up of Microsoft's registration procedures it is becoming more and more difficult to get support from the company, or to get software updates, without registering, so Microsoft is going to acquire more and more of this data. In the Windows 98 install procedure, users are not told that all this data is being sent, but Smith says that the data Microsoft is gathering is being used to build a database of Windows users globally.From what Smith says, it would also seem that Microsoft has been doing a pretty through job of 'integrating' the number into a user's entire installation. Aside from being linked to the user's name, it also appears in files the user has created, so Microsoft's database could be used to track both users and the documents they produce across the Internet.
Dus niet alleen Intel maar ook Microsoft houdt zich bezig met zulke gore praktijken. De rest.
