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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Sending error reports to Microsoft is an error
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It’s bad enough when Windows messes up. But there’s always an extra little kick. A message flashes on the screen asking if you want to send an error report to Microsoft.
I never do. It’s not as if a bunch of wireheads at Microsoft rush around screaming - “Oh, my gosh, Bill Husted’s Mutant Martians game has crashed again … get someone on it.”
So I just click the “Don’t Send” button and deal with things myself.
Turns out that there is another reason to ignore the request. When you send in the error report, you are also sending in a memory dump from your computer that could contain personal information. I doubt that MicroSofties would ever dig through all the error message dumps but it seems sensible to avoid even that small chance.
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