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by Spivak 3650 days ago
Calling it a botnet is meant to highlight that it's MS who is ultimately in control and a machine running W10 obeys them before the user.

If we're going for accuracy, it should probably be called spyware.

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Spyware would be accurate if it was just the telemetry, botnet is correct since Windows Update essentially acts as a C&C system.