You have this very backwards, CVEs are about Security and not the other way around.
Consider why we care about security in the first place:
- We don't want our private data stolen
- We don't want a malicious program stealing our electricity and computing resources
- We don't want adware injecting advertising into our browser toolbar, homepage, email client, etc
- We want our family to be able to safely use our computers without having to worry about them falling for scams
- We want peace of mind
Unconsented advertising is absolutely a violation of security in the same way a salesmen breaking into your house to sell you things is. Don't miss the forest for the trees here.
Do not forget that the CVE system is fundamentally just a tool for tracking computer security vulnerabilities, a tool that unfortunately incentivises pedantic security researchers to fill it with garbage to pad their resumes, a tool who's authority is worshiped like a god by corporate IT departments despite it's inadequacies, but a tool nonetheless which just happens to be better than it's alternatives.
The fact that deliberate security violations enforced by the vendor are not tracked by the CVE system, is not evidence of Security, but simply a limitation of the system.
Consider why we care about security in the first place:
- We don't want our private data stolen
- We don't want a malicious program stealing our electricity and computing resources
- We don't want adware injecting advertising into our browser toolbar, homepage, email client, etc
- We want our family to be able to safely use our computers without having to worry about them falling for scams
- We want peace of mind
Almost all those points are basically the same thing repeated differently:
We don't want somebody else mess with our computer, but that "somebody else" almost always is 3rd party - so not you (user) and not Microsoft (vendor).
Ads from vendor aren't considered as a security issue (unless very edge cases).
They are annoying, but in the principle they aren't security defect (unless badly implemented)
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You have this very backwards, CVEs are about Security and not the other way around.
Consider why we care about security in the first place:
- We don't want our private data stolen
- We don't want a malicious program stealing our electricity and computing resources
- We don't want adware injecting advertising into our browser toolbar, homepage, email client, etc
- We want our family to be able to safely use our computers without having to worry about them falling for scams
- We want peace of mind
Unconsented advertising is absolutely a violation of security in the same way a salesmen breaking into your house to sell you things is. Don't miss the forest for the trees here.
Do not forget that the CVE system is fundamentally just a tool for tracking computer security vulnerabilities, a tool that unfortunately incentivises pedantic security researchers to fill it with garbage to pad their resumes, a tool who's authority is worshiped like a god by corporate IT departments despite it's inadequacies, but a tool nonetheless which just happens to be better than it's alternatives.
The fact that deliberate security violations enforced by the vendor are not tracked by the CVE system, is not evidence of Security, but simply a limitation of the system.
Almost all those points are basically the same thing repeated differently:
We don't want somebody else mess with our computer, but that "somebody else" almost always is 3rd party - so not you (user) and not Microsoft (vendor).
Ads from vendor aren't considered as a security issue (unless very edge cases).
They are annoying, but in the principle they aren't security defect (unless badly implemented)
Please define security in a way that excludes all possible classes of "third party doing things on your machine without your knowledge or consent"