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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, @05:03AM
i dunno but only nerds are paranoid.
your regular person showers, brushes their teeth,, dresses in nice fresh clothes and speaks and acts with good manners.
this new windows 10 should be viewed as a new global interface for "audition to fame".
the smart camera w/ assistant that monitors your behavior (see above) and will dispense "stars" to smart, polite and beautiful people.
this is your chance! you will go far! don't fight the system (that owns all the 99% money), embrace it!!!
not smart? nevermind! you can still be pretty! there's always need to put that bikini on something on that yacht ^_^.
maybe banks can make a special investment offers (w/ windows 10 data) for the above cases where IQ doesn't keep up with looks.
i reckon there will be a slew of new-wealthy clients to come ...
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 23 2015, @05:15AM
idiot!
everybody knows that nerds buy TWO windows 10 licenses.
the first win 10 is configured as a proxy.
the second one uses the first one as a proxy, this way the encryption data from the first one goes to the second one-is-proxy which then encrypt-it again, thus sending doubely encrypted data, which de-crypted on the other end will only yield encrypted data from the first (too which the decryption key is missing), thus filling up their telemetry data base with useless encrypted data from the first.
^_^
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 23 2015, @07:00AM
Perhaps it would be worthwhile, determining the encryption methods and so forth, and just load them up with masses of data (Project Gutenberg texts, random numbers and letters).
Let 'er rip, lads and ladies!