Chinmay007 wrote:I'm more curious about the implications then the reasoning for it. Weither it's "anti-piracy", or some kind of under undisclosed purpose, the sheer implications of WGA are frightening. I didn't realize this fully until today.
We have seen is this has big implications. Just a few hours of downtime cause widespread havok. WGA could be a threat to the national security and sovereignty of hundreds of nations. It seems really outlandish but it really isn't. What WGA is doing basically is entrusting remote control of the functionality of all the world's Windows computers to a 3rd party.
I might be crazy, but that is something that worries me a lot. It really really troubles me. I don't want Microsoft, the US government, or whoever, having such control over my computer systems and my nation's computer systems. It's dangerous on a number of levels. Something really needs to be done about this on a political level, because it has political implications.
As far are the reasoning for it, I think it would be naive to think it's just an anti-piracy measure. I've learned long ago that the thing you have to fear most from is the truth. One reason people lie is because the truth is often unbearable for most people to hear. I don't think we are hearing the truth or at least the full truth from Microsoft.
even if WGA did not exists then Microsoft could still release a "specially crafted" windows hotfix and screw up all of those computers anyways therefore your spy story theory has no sense.
