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Even when told not to, Windows 10 just can’t stop talking to Microsoft (link only due to copyright)
Ars Technica — LINK ONLY
| August 12, 2015
| by Peter Bright
Posted on 08/13/2015 8:54:36 PM PDT by Swordmaker
It's no wonder that privacy activists are up in arms.
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LINK TO THE ARTICLE: Even when told not to, Windows 10 just can’t stop talking to Microsoft
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: microsoft; privacy; windows10; windowspinglist
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To: dayglored
Microsoft’s firewall is pretty good as far as software firewalls go, but they open up all sorts of nonsense with an out-of-box machine.
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08/14/2015 6:49:30 AM PDT
by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: Vince Ferrer
I have a VM of Win7 that I play around with occasionally. I’ve considered letting it update to Win10, then start it back up with all networking removed from the VM just to see how long it will run before it chokes and dies.
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posted on
08/14/2015 7:14:13 AM PDT
by
zeugma
(Zaphod Beeblebrox for president!)
To: Swordmaker
Anything on what happens when you either try to run the PC while not connected to the Internet, or where the home router is set to disable connections to Microsoft?
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08/14/2015 7:21:31 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: Swordmaker
I see we have a former mutual acquaintance!
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08/16/2015 10:52:49 PM PDT
by
chulaivn66
(Meine antwort ist nein. Ende der debatte. Macht euer verschieben.)
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