And yet, you posed this on the internet, sharing your IP & MAC addresses with several companies.
How is he sharing his MAC address with any companies that are outside his network segment?
Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, even with Bing disabled
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#22This occurs even on Enterprise with Cortana and Bing disabled via the UI and via GPOs.
are you using LTSB?
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#23And yet, you posed this on the internet, sharing your IP & MAC addresses with several companies.
Even worst, he is alive, and he had to share his name with the local authorities when he was born
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#25I'm starting to think I need to worry about things getting out of my firewall more than things getting in.
Re: Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, even with Bing disabled
#26It's the new norm apparently - everyone is doing this. Apple gives OS X away but nobody has yet got the memo that you are becoming the product. (Yosemite does exactly that by default - you can disable it though.)
which setting is it under?
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#27It's the new norm apparently - everyone is doing this. Apple gives OS X away but nobody has yet got the memo that you are becoming the product. (Yosemite does exactly that by default - you can disable it though.)
I thoroughly doubt that Apple's endgame here is to make their users the product – given that the operating system is only available to people who have paid them money in the first place.
A much more pragmatic conclusion is that they think this feature is something that users want. And in Apple's case, as well as others, it probably is.
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#28I wonder what foreign governments such as China and Russia are going to do about this. How are they going to secure their networks from surveillance?
Re: Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, even with Bing disabled
#29It's the new norm apparently - everyone is doing this. Apple gives OS X away but nobody has yet got the memo that you are becoming the product. (Yosemite does exactly that by default - you can disable it though.)
which setting is it under?
Spotlight suggestions is the issue, and there are settings for both Safari and Spotlight to adjust so searches are not shared. This article shows the steps to disable:
http://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/spotlight-suggestion...
Re: Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, even with Bing disabled
#30It's the new norm apparently - everyone is doing this. Apple gives OS X away but nobody has yet got the memo that you are becoming the product. (Yosemite does exactly that by default - you can disable it though.)
I thoroughly doubt that Apple's endgame here is to make their users the product – given that the operating system is only available to people who have paid them money in the first place. A much more pragmatic conclusion is that they think this feature is something that users want. And in Apple's case, as well as others, it probably is.
It could end up like cable TV. Initially you just pay for the service, eventually you keep paying but also get sold.