This is nonsense, because it patently is security theater. Earlier I was addressing the fact that to look good to a judge or lawyer, you need to do things that are dumb but very strict. That has nothing to do with reality and we shouldn't start pretending it does: The OSS is likely better in every way than what you'll buy (even if it's just because it does the same thing but is much cheaper).
> telemetry that [...] can be inspected
The telemetry cannot be meaningfully inspected, because it may change at any time. You know what it has sent just now, not what it'll send 5 minutes from now.
> telemetry that [...] can be turned off
You cannot know that it was turned off. Historically, MS doesn't respect your choice to turn it off once and will just turn it back on later for whatever reason. Aside from that, you cannot inspect the binary in a meaningful way so you don't know what it will do 5 minutes from now.
This is nonsense, because it patently is security theater. Earlier I was addressing the fact that to look good to a judge or lawyer, you need to do things that are dumb but very strict. That has nothing to do with reality and we shouldn't start pretending it does: The OSS is likely better in every way than what you'll buy (even if it's just because it does the same thing but is much cheaper).
> telemetry that [...] can be inspected
The telemetry cannot be meaningfully inspected, because it may change at any time. You know what it has sent just now, not what it'll send 5 minutes from now.
> telemetry that [...] can be turned off
You cannot know that it was turned off. Historically, MS doesn't respect your choice to turn it off once and will just turn it back on later for whatever reason. Aside from that, you cannot inspect the binary in a meaningful way so you don't know what it will do 5 minutes from now.