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As a MSFT employee: Provide a proof that Win10 is not sending home the data I mentioned. Oh wait, it has been documented by third parties. Win10 has a whiteli
by frik 10y ago
As a MSFT employee: Provide a proof that Win10 is not sending home the data I mentioned.
Oh wait, it has been documented by third parties.
Win10 has a whitelist in the signed 64bit kernel mode network driver, so you can't stop it except by putting a hardware firewall in front of your Win10 box - good luck with your Win10 notebook.
If an app sends home metrics, it can be stopped with a software firewall. If you can't trust your operating system any more, it's a whole different ballpark.
Adware and spyware companies with their unwanted toolbars and what not got problems with the US law since 2004. Win10 is an adware and spyware per definition, see news article of this HN thread.
- cube2222 10y agoI haven't denied the metrics. But please provide proof of it sending home non-anonymus data the kind you mentioned. Also, as I said, it should be possible to turn it off soon.
- hueving 10y agoUnless the metrics are sent over tor, they aren't really anonymous. How many times have companies claimed they've anonymized data only to find out it was trivial to correlate it with something else?