Two months ago, the July Win7 security-only patch was found to install telemetry software, triggered by newly installed scheduled tasks called ProgramDataUpdater, Microsoft Compatibility Appraiser, and AitAgent. As best I can tell, Microsoft never admitted that its security-only patch dropped a telemetry component. The August security-only update didn’t include that bit of snooping, so it looked like the July snooping was a one-off aberration. Now we’re learning that the September security-only patches for both Win 7 and Win 8.1 have this, shall we say, feature.
-– bonitas non est pessimis esse meliorem –-
