I read another scary article about Windows 10 today. Google started this commercial data mining mess and there's no turning back now.
"When you install Windows 10 on a new PC or upgrade an existing version of Windows to the new operating system, you get the option to customize select preferences or use the defaults instead.
If you select to customize, you get the option to disable three pages full of features related to privacy.
While that is a good start at limiting Windows 10's hunger for data, it is nowhere near sufficient to keep the operating system from talking with Microsoft servers regularly.
A user on Voat analyzed the network traffic of Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system using a DD-WRT router and a Linux Mint laptop with remote logging and Windows 10 Enterprise installed on Virtualbox recently.
He turned off all privacy-related features during custom installation, and let the computer sit idle for eight hours straight afterwards logging network traffic.
In the eight hours Windows 10 made 5508 connection attempts."
Link to the complete article (http://www.ghacks.net/2016/02/08/win...acy-hardening/).
If the OS makes this many attempts to 'phone home' when there is nothing new to report, what will it do when the computer is actually being used to do stuff? There are 3rd party apps (1 is mentioned in the article) that can help reduce the frequency that the OS calls 'home' and to other servers. I foresee a huge market for these apps (or huge purchases of telco unlimited data plans), if Microsoft can get close to it's target number of users. If the current rate of adoption remains steady, Microsoft will reach it's target in about 3 years. I expect Microsoft will extend the free upgrade period or reduce the price for Windows 10 this summer.
"When you install Windows 10 on a new PC or upgrade an existing version of Windows to the new operating system, you get the option to customize select preferences or use the defaults instead.
If you select to customize, you get the option to disable three pages full of features related to privacy.
While that is a good start at limiting Windows 10's hunger for data, it is nowhere near sufficient to keep the operating system from talking with Microsoft servers regularly.
A user on Voat analyzed the network traffic of Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system using a DD-WRT router and a Linux Mint laptop with remote logging and Windows 10 Enterprise installed on Virtualbox recently.
He turned off all privacy-related features during custom installation, and let the computer sit idle for eight hours straight afterwards logging network traffic.
In the eight hours Windows 10 made 5508 connection attempts."
Link to the complete article (http://www.ghacks.net/2016/02/08/win...acy-hardening/).
If the OS makes this many attempts to 'phone home' when there is nothing new to report, what will it do when the computer is actually being used to do stuff? There are 3rd party apps (1 is mentioned in the article) that can help reduce the frequency that the OS calls 'home' and to other servers. I foresee a huge market for these apps (or huge purchases of telco unlimited data plans), if Microsoft can get close to it's target number of users. If the current rate of adoption remains steady, Microsoft will reach it's target in about 3 years. I expect Microsoft will extend the free upgrade period or reduce the price for Windows 10 this summer.
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