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I use glasswire firewall and I just checked nvidia's activity and it doesn't even amount to a megabyte (uploaded) in the last week. I'm thinking this is tinfoil
by behringer 3y ago
I use glasswire firewall and I just checked nvidia's activity and it doesn't even amount to a megabyte (uploaded) in the last week. I'm thinking this is tinfoil hat stuff.
- JohnFen 3y ago> it doesn't even amount to a megabyte (uploaded) in the last week. That seems like a lot for a piece of software that doesn't have to send anything whatsoever in order to do its job.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoI’m a little surprised no one has MitM the telemetry service and reverse engineered what it’s sending.
- JohnFen 3y agoAssuming they're using halfway decent cryptography, then doing this is nontrivial. But there are probably people working on it, and if so, they may eventually succeed.
- gabrielhidasy 3y agoHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is 970KB uncompressed, 228KB with bzip2. You may be able to compress the whole thing in 1MB with some effort.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoHey great I was just wondering if there was a little snitch for windows https://www.glasswire.com https://www.glasswire.com
- wredue 3y agoI think you’re being misled by insane JavaScript bundles re how much information can be conveyed in small compressed text files. Capturing window titles and how long they have focus over a weeks logging takes a couple bytes of text…
- gpvos 3y agoSounds like a lot to me.