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I'm sure there's plenty of hackers, government agencies, etc that would just love to redirect telemetry from specific targets' Windows computers to servers they
by ufmace 6y ago
I'm sure there's plenty of hackers, government agencies, etc that would just love to redirect telemetry from specific targets' Windows computers to servers they control.
Not to say that it going to Microsoft is necessarily that much better, or that they may have deliberately also sabotaged people trying to redirect it to localhost, but still, it's a thing.
- dividedbyzero 6y agoBut could they? Verifying the host on the other end is the real deal doesn't appear to be too hard. I would be surprised if Microsoft relied solely on plain DNS for that.
- abiogenesis 6y agoThis is what technologies like TLS and certificate pinning are for. Watching the hosts file is only meant to be a nuisance for the end user.