Wednesday, March 7, 2007

WGA Reports Back To MS Even If You Choose Not To Install - Aviran's Place Heise online reports on a very interesting action Microsoft is taking during the installation of WGA. When you start WGA setup and get to the license agreement page but decided NOT to install the highly controversial WGA component and cancel the installation, the setup program will send your info and the fact that you choose not to install WGA back to their servers. In addition to that it seems that the setup program send some information stored in your registry to http://genuine.microsoft.com/. While it does not specifically identify the user, it looks like it does send some identification of your computer and Windows version (see picture) to Microsoft servers. 1:06:01 PM

Microsoft WGA Phones Home Even When Told No. Microsoft WGA Phones Home Even When Told No. Aviran writes "When you start WGA setup and get to the license agreement page but decided NOT to install the highly controversial WGA component and cancel the installation, the setup program will send information stored in your registry and the fact that you choose not to install WGA back to Microsoft's servers." [Slashdot] 1:00:00 PM

U.S. Senators Pressure Canada on Canadian DMCA. U.S. Senators Pressure Canada on Canadian DMCA. An anonymous reader writes  "The U.S. copyright lobby brought out some heavy artillery last week as it continued to pressure Canada to introduce a Canadian DMCA. U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins gave a public talk in which he described Canadian copyright law as the weakest in the G7, while Senators Dianne Feinstein and John Cornyn wrote to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to urge him to bring in movie piracy legislation."  [Slashdot] 12:49:09 PM

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