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Is there any tool like DisableWinTracking for Windows 7?
by archimedespi 11y ago
Is there any tool like DisableWinTracking for Windows 7?
- mnw21cam 11y agoA Linux machine with two ethernet cards acting as a firewall to the internet?
- simonh 11y agoDo we even know how you'd need to configure the firewall to block the specific traffic that's the problem?
- morganvachon 11y agoThere's a list of domains that came up in a previous discussion on HN (sorry, I don't recall it right away), and was also trending on pastebin.com, which contained all of the known domains Microsoft was using to report back from the OS. Presumably you could route those to "null" or the equivalent on your router and you'd be good to go. Edit: Here's the pastebin link: http://pastebin.com/RZW74Npk http://pastebin.com/RZW74Npk
- scott_karana 11y agoYou could always just do that in Windows' hosts file, too.
- morganvachon 11y agoYou can, and I'm sure most would. There may come a time, however, when a future Windows update rewrites or works around the hosts file for telemetry. Doing it at the router or external firewall avoids that possibility.
- scott_karana 11y agoAh, fair point.
- kardos 11y agoSuch an update could also add new data harvesting hosts, which would bypass your router's blacklist.
- morganvachon 11y agoThat's a given. The rabbit hole goes as deep as Microsoft is willing to dig it. Like any other vulnerability, there will always be security researchers out there who find and report on new ones.
- yellowapple 11y agoThat's assuming that Windows doesn't circumvent such things because "well we know what we're doing and you don't".