On 22 July 2016 at 10:45, Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > Some people may have bumped into the following surprise for VS2015: > > https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/06/10/1350245/visual-studio-2015-c-compiler-secretly-inserts-telemetry-code-into-binaries > > VS 2015 is adding calls to telemetry (surprise!) to track activity of > an application... It's already been removed. https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/06/visual-cpp-telemetry . Frankly I think it's a good idea, it was just stupid to do it silently and by default especially on release builds. It didn't actually send data anywhere unless locally enabled, though. This is mostly a storm in a teacup, IMO, and if undesired it sounds like it's just necessary to build with VS 2015 update 3. I don't personally see it as particularly different to inserting dtrace events or similar. https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/releasenotes/vs2015-update3-vs -- Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
