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Microsoft is now selling third-parties access to its Windows 10 telemetry data via subscription.
Microsoft struck a deal with security company FireEye recently according to a report on Australian news magazin[e] Arn [sic] which gives FireEye access to all Windows 10 Telemetry data.
The report states that FireEye in return will provide Microsoft with the company's iSIGHT Intelligence software for Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection on Windows 10 devices.
[...] Windows Defender is built-in to Windows 10 and enabled by default unless other security software is recognized by the operating system.
[...] The news article suggests that the partnership benefits Microsoft, and specifically the reputation and credibility of the commercial version of Windows Defender.
A press release by FireEye on November 3, 2016 provides additional details on the deal. The company's iSIGHT Intelligence software is available through Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (WDATP) but not the free version of Windows Defender.
WDATP customers gain access to several technical indicators that are provided by the software. These include the main motivation of the attacker, related tools, information about target sectors and geographies, and a description of the actor and operation.
According to the report on ARN, security teams may also get their hands on Windows 10 Telemetry data via subscription billing models.
Third-parties will get access to telemetry data of all Windows 10 devices. An overview of what that may include is provided on this Technet page.
Neither FireEye, Microsoft or ARN reveal details on the range of Telemetry data that FireEye gains access to.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday November 25 2016, @07:14PM
Just found this gem: [soylentnews.org]
Jesus Christ. For some values of some. Actually, besides the window controls bug, my Jessie UI had a major bugout (I'm guessing with the window zooming) That made my whole desktop look like a close-up of a subsection of a Picasso painting with only the elements surrounding the mouse cursor properly rendered. And my hardware is far from exotic, P4 arch with Intel integrated graphics.
I'm really starting to wonder if there are Microsoft plants within all distros deliberately shitting them up with infuriating design and functionality changes. Probably because more and more of them are wasting time bitching about gender issues and safe spaces [imgur.com] rather than producing workable code. Is 2016 the year of the AIS desktop?
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday November 25 2016, @07:16PM
Er, sorry, this [debian.org] is the first link above, and is the first Google hit when Googling "Jessie Stable."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 25 2016, @08:29PM
Don't like your options? You are free the write your own. You may not be as talented as an autistic Chinaman but that hasn't stopped you before, has it?
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday November 25 2016, @09:30PM
Meh. Probably just resign myself to gutting and rearranging an existing distro, then imaging. Why code or roll from scratch when I could use relics from back when Linux devs got things right?
(Score: 2) by gottabeme on Sunday November 27 2016, @11:27PM
No need for relics, KDE 3.5 lives on in the form of TDE. Latest release came out a couple weeks ago. Try it, it's great. Using it on Jessie. It's like the good old days, except today! I can dig up my old desktop screenshots from 10 years ago and make my current desktop look just like it! I even donated some money to the project, because I'm so thankful that someone is keeping the original KDE vision alive, i.e. making software that is useful, and keeping it working rather than turning it into a toy project and ripping out working code. :)
(Score: 3, Interesting) by dyingtolive on Saturday November 26 2016, @06:02AM
That pic is delightful. I wrote a script once back when I was a BOFH that took all the bash history of the testing and root user accounts on our (non-prod, stop freaking) boxes and glommed it together into one giant text file that rolled the last 24 hours. Whenever I was frustrated or bummed, I'd just look at that shit and see the most hilarious things like that. No one knew it was there because I made it a dot-file. Sadly that was all it took.
It actually came into use when one time one of our programs we used stopped working. I found it was replaced by a blank file. Confused, I check that and find someone tried to cat a empty file and redirected output to that program. I sent out an email saying "don't do this" that received a surprised "you're reading what we type?!", to which I responded "Yes, normally it makes me laugh, but now I'm going to propose using it for new hire screening questions."
I drink a lot less than I used to then, which kinda sucks, but on the bright side, I don't NEED to drink nearly as often.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!