Not meaning to be rude, but how do you run Windows itself if you cannot audit it? How do you fetch updates from Microsoft if you cannot audit them? What about other applications, eg. anything from Adobe, Microsoft (for Office etc.) ?
Seems to be an odd complaint to make, to me. You could run ProcessMonitor to see what the application is doing.
Or read the excellent Windows Internals books if you've got a few weeks spare (and for Windows 10 it is missing Volume 2 at the moment - given that Windows 10 is a constantly moving target the poor book will be out of date as soon as it is written, let alone published).
Do you audit apps on Android / iOS / macOS too? I find my Android device dials home all the time and flings data out at an astounding rate, which is disappointing.
How do you use your satellite/cable/TV these days? How do you audit your entertainment systems? Mine came with the GPL on a bit of paper in the box given that it's got no end of Open Source software used inside it but I was unable to audit it - how did you manage it?
Do you read the source code of every Open Source application before running it? Have you combed over the entire Linux kernel before booting it? What do you think to Peter H. Anvin's bootloader code given that you use it every single time Linux boots? How long did auditing that take?
At what point do you start to trust an executable or code?
Seems to be an odd complaint to make, to me. You could run ProcessMonitor to see what the application is doing.
Or read the excellent Windows Internals books if you've got a few weeks spare (and for Windows 10 it is missing Volume 2 at the moment - given that Windows 10 is a constantly moving target the poor book will be out of date as soon as it is written, let alone published).
Do you audit apps on Android / iOS / macOS too? I find my Android device dials home all the time and flings data out at an astounding rate, which is disappointing.
How do you use your satellite/cable/TV these days? How do you audit your entertainment systems? Mine came with the GPL on a bit of paper in the box given that it's got no end of Open Source software used inside it but I was unable to audit it - how did you manage it?
Do you read the source code of every Open Source application before running it? Have you combed over the entire Linux kernel before booting it? What do you think to Peter H. Anvin's bootloader code given that you use it every single time Linux boots? How long did auditing that take?
At what point do you start to trust an executable or code?