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Does anyone know the status of using the Windows Firewall to block this stuff? Since Search and other parts of the OS are actually apps it seems, if you set a d
by MichaelGG 11y ago
Does anyone know the status of using the Windows Firewall to block this stuff? Since Search and other parts of the OS are actually apps it seems, if you set a default deny, then whitelist only certain parts, wouldn't that sort itself out?
And any idea why MS is acting this way? Certainly offering a hidden opt-out registry key would satisfy a lot of customers, and not impact the telemetry data in a meaningful way. For Office, they literally discarded/sampled the telemetry data as it was simply too much to use.
- yuhong 11y agoI think some traffic do bypass the firewall, but it is mostly licensing stuff.
- rasz_pl 11y agoDo you have any details? backdooring own firewall would be a HUGE deal.
- yuhong 11y agoIt probably dates far back before Win10 though.
- click170 11y agoFirewalls on hosts should really only be used for protection against inbound traffic, trying to use firewalls on a host to block that host from sending traffic a) doesn't scale on a network of many hosts and b) can be overriden if the thing trying to send traffic has root access to modify the firewall. Gateway firewalls are much less susceptible to malicious modification this way, and IMO are the best way to protect yourself from this type of corporate spying in general.
- rasz_pl 11y agoI tried in the VM during beta, windows firewall deny all policy blocked _all traffic_. Should be enough unless MS decided to lie about data statistics visible to the user, I didnt look at the network stats outside vm.
- ionised 11y agoI'd honestly highly recommend using a third party firewall. Comodo is pretty good.