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There are numerous sites (eg [1]) which claim to provide a list of FQDNs associated with Windows 10 telematics. These sites usually advise you to reroute those
by jand 11y ago
There are numerous sites (eg [1]) which claim to provide a list of FQDNs associated with Windows 10 telematics. These sites usually advise you to reroute those FQDN to localhost via the hosts file.
To my point of view this is a endless game of cat-and-mice... finding the (changing?) telematics FQDNs and updating the hosts file. By design this cannot be a permanent solution.
[1] http://news.softpedia.com/news/blocking-these-domains-stops-windows-10-from-phoning-home-488630.shtml http://news.softpedia.com/news/blocking-these-domains-stops-...
- ascagnel_ 11y agoCould you filter this traffic on a network level? Having to provision and update every Windows PC on a network would be an administrative nightmare.
- 7952 11y agoThere is a weird catch 22 in that the pervasive use of TLS makes it much more difficult to firewall things like this. I suppose you could setup a MITM that checks everything before it leaves your network but that just feels wrong.