Comment Re:He got his gold MacGuffin (Score 2) 158
No, it's pure market manipulation... Find who sold INTC 3 days ago and bought back today and you find the ones that will give him a cut of the profits.
I doubt they will allow Chrome if this is activated and they cannot deactivate it using group policies or registry keys.
It's not a server application (I hope), so the telemetry will just access Intel servers and post a bunch of data. Depending on how the data is encrypted and signed, someone could abuse this service by posting a flood of fake data.
It could be abused, as any piece of software, but I don't expect remote code execution on it. Maybe a local privilege escalation, an unsafe driver leading to code running as SYSTEM, things like that.
Real Programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.