About leakage --- ?
If the idea behind "any non-trivial program will have bugs" is down to complexity, is there a similar axiom for communications?
"Any communication stream which has non-trivial complexity of connections will, at some points, be vulnerable to intrusion" perhaps?
If something generally like that is possibly true, then even if Microsoft is using Windows' com streams purely for enhancing usability, it also means that as the complexity of the telemetry grows so too does the vulnerability of the system to intrusion.
If so, this is the wrong way for a major OS to go. Black hats are not becoming less skilful, hacks are not becoming less sophisticated, malware code is not becoming less widespread. How much of what Cortana tells herself and Microsoft across your phones, laptops, public wifi, home wifi, will become exposed?
Maybe Microsoft is not malevolent. But maybe they don't have to be malevolent to be a danger to your security, though.
Dunno anything about that, really. Just thinking out loud. Curious what others think about it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
