On 16.06.2021 22:22, Matthew Miller wrote:

Well, that's certainly A Position. I don't think it's anything nearly so
absolute, though, and depends on what, who, how, why, and a host of other
things. And "it can help us answer questions like this for our community" is
a pretty non-evil "why".

Built-in system level keylogger in one well-known operating system also helps its developers?

You are arguing a 'slippery slope' of increasingly intrusive telemetry, but we should judge each thing on its own merits. Yes, a keylogger is a bad idea--but it does not follow that keeping track of the hardware configurations, or logging software failures is also super-bad. If the benefits outweigh costs, the tradeoff is worth considering---this is true of software just as well as of, say, vaccines.

The problem with 'slippery slope' arguments is that they themselves can be abused to say that no change is possible because it could be taken too far and lead to abuse.