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Q: Self-contradictory contribution. If it is unwanted how comes it is useful?

A: First, this is no contradiction. What a contradiction is explains Contradiction. Second, the usefulness of phoning home only excerts on stolen devices. The majority of devices is not stolen the majority of time. Under normal circumstances there is no general usefulness. --87.183.154.58 (talk) 12:23, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The citation style seems consistent enough for me now, so I removed the "unclear citation style" box (maybe the person who put it there could clarify why it was put there in the first place). There still seem to be some unverified claims though. --Summentier (talk) 08:43, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am not sure the Sony BMG rootkit belongs under the "legal phoning home" section; as the linked article discusses, the rootkit was not lawfully installed with consumer consent and itself was pirated software. Sony eventually had to admit culpability and settle. Matthias Alexander Jude Shapiro (talk) 15:58, 2 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]