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stormwyrm [soylentnews.org] writes:

A user on Voat going by the handle CheesusCrust [voat.co] has done an analysis of Windows 10 telemetry [voat.co] using DD-WRT doing remote logging to a Linux machine, and they have found that even with all of the telemetry options disabled, a clean Windows 10 Enterprise Edition install still appears to be sending substantial amounts of data back to Microsoft. In an eight-hour period, the experiment identified 3967 connection attempts to 51 distinct Microsoft IP addresses. A further update after 30 hours of letting it sit [voat.co] shows a total of 113 different external IPs are accessed. CheesusCrust also performed a further test [voat.co] using the popular anti-Windows 10 telemetry application DisableWinTracking [github.com], and found that while it is able to reduce the data being sent back to Microsoft, even the most stringent options cannot completely eliminate it.

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