It isn't MS spying on us, it's MS gathering information on us then selling them to whoever wants them. Facebook has been doing that for years now, not sure why people write/do dumb shit on there and expect to not be red flagged or caught.Stop MS spying on them...man and I thought people who think everything came from Aliens were crazy.
It's nearly as bad as the whole thing about the Xbox One Kinect recording you. It doesn't happen.
It isn't MS spying on us, it's MS gathering information on us then selling them to whoever wants them. Facebook has been doing that for years now, not sure why people write/do dumb shit on there and expect to not be red flagged or caught.
Now where's that tinfoil hat emo.
These changes are just a little bit arrogant on their part, knowing how people value their privacy.. if they are going to sell all our privacy to advertisers and the like the operating system should be permanently free. So long as they are charging people for it I'm disabling every last bit of it. At least facebook is free.
The sheer magnitude of the intrusiveness makes me want to try Linux Mint.
If you're using the Microsoft recommended settings it's going to be about a shit ton of data, give or take a tad.Do actually know the "sheer magnitude" of the data they are collecting here? If so, please share it with us. We would all like to know.
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I've seen theres a lot of speculation on whether the observed network connections from Windows 10 with privacy options on are actually spying or not, and figured some actual evidence would be in order.
Anyone can recreate this for themselves:
Im still trying to figure out exactly what it is that it is transmitting, but its for sure sending a user-agent string that identifies itself as Cortana.
- Fresh install of Windows 10.
- Set all privacy options to off, disable cortana, disable web search
- Ensure all updates are done. Close all programs.
- Install Fiddler, and enable HTTPS sniffing. (If you use wireshark, you wont be able to view the HTTPS)
- Press stream in fiddler.
- Click the windows search bar, type any letter, watch the HTTPS session to bing.com appear.
Some observed behaviors:
- Clicking on a link from an application (in this case, a download link from within Fiddler) submits the URL you are visiting to urs.microsoft.com.
- Opening applications-- even with SmartScreen disabled-- opens sessions to apprep.smartscreen.microsoft.com and, among other things, submits the hash of the application. EDIT: Apparently you must also disable smartscreen in edge. Even so, it will initiate a connection to w.apprep.smartscreen.microsoft.com
- Typing anything into the search bar will, regardless of settings, initiate an HTTPS session to www.bing.com. It will transmit a cookie, though so far I have not seen anything in there that looks like keystroke monitoring, as the only thing that appears to change between attempts is an HV section of the cookie. It appears to be downloading javascript, and submitting identifying data (screen resolution, install date, SID). The URL it uses is https://www.bing.com/manifest/threshold.appcache
- Opening the settings app and going into account options sometimes opens a session to public-family.api.account.microsoft.com:443. I suppose this would be expected.
NO way to shut down the spying, even if you have disabled all of the supposed spying in settings AND have modified the registry, services AND policy! Win10 is literally NSA backdoor into your life, your bank accounts, your data, your research, your darkest secrets, your whole life!2.
Windows 10 uses the Internet a lot to support many of its features. The operating system also sports numerous knobs to twiddle that are supposed to disable most of these features, and the potentially privacy-compromising connections that go with them.
Unfortunately for privacy advocates, these controls don't appear to be sufficient to completely prevent the operating system from going online and communicating with Microsoft's servers.
For example, even with Cortana and searching the Web from the Start menu disabled, opening Start and typing will send a request to www.bing.com to request a file called threshold.appcache which appears to contain some Cortana information, even though Cortana is disabled. The request for this file appears to contain a random machine ID that persists across reboots.
you need to consider who the OP is......
He is convinced that windows 10 is of the Devil!
Yet any competent person can easily turn off all the things the OP believes is Malware or a Trojan or somethi9ng else that is nefarious!!
This is truthfully much ado about nothing!!
Yet any competent person can easily turn off all the things the OP believes is Malware or a Trojan or somethi9ng else that is nefarious!!
he didn`t say guess..... He asked if you know....If you're using the Microsoft recommended settings it's going to be about a shit ton of data, give or take a tad.
Between the telemetry, cortana, bing, Microsoft account, and targeted advertising there's a lot to log.
sadly you are jumping to conclusions and quite frankly everything you are talking can be turned off@!!! I am using windows 10 and have no issues and have turned off everything that could be considered spyware.....Here is a troll, who doesn't read, doesn't visit the links, doesn't look at the evidence and just trolls and spreads spam!
If you actually READ the links I posted, you'll see that even with the maximum privacy set through the settings, it still spies on you!
It spies on you even with privacy set to maximum. It still sends all your data, it sends searches, it sends app data, etc...
Are you trying to prove the people right that said you don't read before replying?sadly you are jumping to conclusions and quite frankly everything you are talking can be turned off@!!! I am using windows 10 and have no issues and have turned off everything that could be considered spyware.....
To call windows 10 a Trojan is just plain stupid!!
So you're saying that they don't collect the data I said?he didn`t say guess..... He asked if you know....
"MS has your bank accounts and your life" look if you want to point out security concerns then fine, but over exaggerating stuff like this simply serves to weaken your position, not strengthen it.
This is from Microsoft EULA:We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary
They can and will access your bank data, business data, medical data, porn data, life data, etc... Their own EULA is which they say it so!!!