*How? By constantly downloading the entire database of every application to your...

thinkingisfun on Aug 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Windows 8 Tells Microsoft Everything You Install, ...

How? By constantly downloading the entire database of every application to your local drive? Where it would not only take up space, but could be modified to allow anything in?

Yes, and no.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4427416

(besides, if you can just tamper with the filesystem you're kinda in already)