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With the release of Windows 10 there have been serious privacy concerns raised as to what data Windows is sending home to mommy and daddy. Much of this could be called benign data leakage for your average user (location information for a map, search information, etc) but it has been hinted that even disabling these features doesn't prevent data being sent from your computer. This is also true for Android, iOS devices, browsers, browser plugins, and software registration / update tools. Even a vanilla Linux or BSD install may be sending out information you aren't aware of. If you haven't checked, you don't know.
Firing up a packet monitor is fairly easy on the host OS and a decent firewall / gateway can dump all the packets from a local network. Assuming the majority of data you would be concerned about leaking out is encrypted, is there an easy way for an owner to decrypt it to see what is actually being sent out? Are there groups conducting this type of analysis and publishing their results with any level of detail?
(Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Saturday August 29 2015, @11:09PM
Yes, and if someone came out with findings that disagreed with the mainstream and was confirmed to be both repeatable and true, it is possible the attention received by that person could end up being quite unwanted. Drawing attention to who swept what under the rug often draws the ire of the parents as well as whoever put that under the rug.
Note how agreeable the tech pundits have been. It is hard to find a recognizable name that has a problem with Windows 10, unless they were security people to begin with.