The windows 10 "telemetry" is not a man-in-the-middle attack, it's a compromised endpoint. You don't know what's in the telemetry -- it's encrypted, and there's

The windows 10 "telemetry" is not a man-in-the-middle attack, it's a compromised endpoint. You don't know what's in the telemetry -- it's encrypted, and there's no (known) mechanism for you, the owner of the computer, to inspect it. It /could/ include what Microsoft claims it does, or it could include all of the above and more. I'm so confused why anyone would want to normalize the idea of backdoored computers that let Microsoft collect whatever data they want from your on a routine basis. Normally we consider this kind of thing spyware or malware and try to get rid of it stat, why does Microsoft get a pass?