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It's a pretty shoddy security researcher that doesn't read the documentation before posting a lot of falsehoods to Twitter.
by cwyers 9y ago
It's a pretty shoddy security researcher that doesn't read the documentation before posting a lot of falsehoods to Twitter.
- flukus 9y agoShoddy or realistic? I'd hope more security researchers work with systems that aren't perfectly configured because they won't be in the real world.
- cwyers 9y agoThere's a difference between "testing things on a reasonable reproduction of real-world systems" and "claiming Windows doesn't work correctly because you don't read the documentation."
- flukus 9y agoThe world where no one reads the manual is a faithful reproduction of the real world. Sensible defaults matter.
- mysterypie 9y ago> pretty shoddy security researcher that doesn't read the documentation What an unnecessary insult. If you can read the incredibly confusing Microsoft documentation better than him (or any of us), then please post the definitive step-by-step instructions for turning off all telemetry and privacy-invasive connections in Windows 10. Then we'll see if your insult was warranted.
- cwyers 9y agoSo, I search for "teredo group policy" and here's the second link I find, a TechNet article with detailed screenshots about how to disable IPv6 via Group Policy, which is one of the things he talks about: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/5927.how-to-disable-ipv6-through-group-policy.aspx https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/... It shows how there's an Explain box that describes what the various settings do.
- mysterypie 9y agoThat's 1 item[ * ]. I'd still like to see your definitive step-by-step instructions for turning off all telemetry and privacy-invasive connections in Windows 10 -- which is what the OP was attempting to do. [ * ] How do you know that it even works? Plenty of times I've followed instructions from Microsoft's TechNet that didn't solve the problem it purported to solve. And by the way, that's a helluva lot of steps to disable IPv6. Multiply that by a hundred other things you need to do, and probably a hundred you don't know about, and changes that get undone by updates, and you have a nightmare trying to create a privacy-respecting Windows 10.
- cwyers 9y agoIPv6 isn't even part of telemetry per say, it's an IETF standard that can be used to connect with any server that supports it. Yes, some OS-level services require IPv6. Shutting off IPv6 as a way of disabling those services is like... using leeches for bloodletting but for IT practices. If you want to disable telemetry and you're on a supported Windows SKU for Group Policy, here's Microsoft's directions on what you can configure: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/configure-windows-telemetry-in-your-organization https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/confi...
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- oridecon 9y agoIt all started with a pretty casual tweet, can we stop crucifying the guy? No matter your opinion about the subject at least we are talking about it now and from what I can tell he's going to make a more reproducible test with a script so we can all tear it to pieces. If not, I hope someone else do it. Even better if it's somebody with the proper credentials some of you all are requiring (from a freaking tweet).