Windows 8 contains a significant privacy flaw, insecurely telling Microsoft about every program you run, according to student and developer Nadim Kobeissi whose assessment fails to grasp some key technical details.
Kobeissi, who has made a name for himself with his controversial browser-based secure chat service Cryptocat, says that the flaw lies in Windows 8's SmartScreen feature. The first time you run any downloaded executable on Windows 8, the operating system sends information about that application to Microsoft. Kebeissi says that this information is sufficient to identify the application you're running, and that Microsoft could combine this with IP address information to know who was running what.
Further, Kobeissi says that the server Microsoft sends the information to supports the SSLv2 protocol, which is known to be insecure.
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