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The administrator of AE News (an online news portal for Czech and Slovak expatriates) writes a very revealing article regarding the Windows 10 collection of user data. Here is the original Czech article. Here is a Bing translation to English. Here is a English condensed version translated by a blogger. And finally a PDF of the original Czech article.
In the post the AE News administrator states:
With the advent of Windows 10, I decided to undergo several tests. The collected knowledge for someone may be alarming. The Windows operating system 10 is essentially the end terminal, more than the operating system, because many of the processes and functions of this system is directly or indirectly dependent on remote servers and databases to Microsoft.
All text typed on the keyboard is stored in temporary files, and sent (once per 30 mins) to:
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
pre.footprintpredict.com
reports.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com
AE News also references an arstechnica.co.uk article which states it might be impossible to stop this communication:
And finally, some traffic seems quite impenetrable. We configured our test virtual machine to use an HTTP and HTTPS proxy (both as a user-level proxy and a system-wide proxy) so that we could more easily monitor its traffic, but Windows 10 seems to make requests to a content delivery network that bypass the proxy."
arstechnica.co.uk also "asked Microsoft if there is any way to disable this additional communication or information about what its purpose is". Microsoft did not reply as to a way to disable this chatter but did respond to the 'additional communication' stating Microsoft is now 'delivering Windows 10 as a service'.
Although the original source for this story is skeptical, Smart nerds on soylentnews can easily fire up Wireshark and reveal the communication for themselves. It appears that MS has fully embraced the cloud where your OS is now a terminal. And regarding privacy? Well, according to arstechnica.co.uk: Windows 10 privacy policy is the new normal
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 23 2015, @06:23AM
To think the subject is prevention is odd. The subject is how to verify the stories claims easily. A filter on a traffic capture is just that. Please read in context before the ad hominems next time.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Monday August 24 2015, @04:10AM
You're kind of thin skinned too aren't you?
That comment was to a starting comment wherein the writer wondered what the less-than-uber-geek was to do -- I can't figure out if that poster was being sarcastic or not about avoiding MS' products.
So you see, when you responded to that blockquoted comment above with "just look at the specific cited domains", the context had nothing to do with story confirmation. In fact, the comment you commented on, was pointing out just how much work figuring out all the domains MS uses would be. In that context, your comment suggesting filtering on specific already known domains when the topic was to find out all the active domains, was -- to be extremely charitable -- naive.