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There is a tool to safely remove all Windows 10 telemetry. It's called Linux.
> It's called Linux. It's called GNU/Linux. :-)
German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis
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I saw this tool being recommended in r/windows10. I have tried it, no issues so far, though haven't tested to see if it does disable telemetry. https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
This tool is great. Only problem is you have to regularly re-run it because Windows Update will revert changes.
Yep, which is why you disable Windows Update too. The people who work on Windows these days should probably all be fired. Out of a cannon. Into the sun.
Re: German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis
#24I am surprised that they using server names like "alpha.telemetry.microsft.com". when I see something like "microsft" in an E-mail or link I immediately suspect that somebody is trying to fake being from Microsoft. Or are these spelling errors in the article?
Edit: these domain names are in the report too. Very strange. I would get very nervous if I saw "microsft" in a firewall log.
Re: German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis
#25I am surprised that they using server names like "alpha.telemetry.microsft.com". when I see something like "microsft" in an E-mail or link I immediately suspect that somebody is trying to fake being from Microsoft. Or are these spelling errors in the article? Edit: these domain names are in the report too. Very strange. I would get very nervous if I saw "microsft" in a firewall log.
> microsft.com
Re: German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis
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This tool is great. Only problem is you have to regularly re-run it because Windows Update will revert changes.
Yep, which is why you disable Windows Update too. The people who work on Windows these days should probably all be fired. Out of a cannon. Into the sun.
Telling users to disable updates it's not a good recommendation.
Re: German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis
#27I am surprised that they using server names like "alpha.telemetry.microsft.com". when I see something like "microsft" in an E-mail or link I immediately suspect that somebody is trying to fake being from Microsoft. Or are these spelling errors in the article? Edit: these domain names are in the report too. Very strange. I would get very nervous if I saw "microsft" in a firewall log.
> microsft.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.3_filename
Why would they use the short names in URLs? I thought they make sense only for file names.
Re: German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis
#28I am surprised that they using server names like "alpha.telemetry.microsft.com". when I see something like "microsft" in an E-mail or link I immediately suspect that somebody is trying to fake being from Microsoft. Or are these spelling errors in the article? Edit: these domain names are in the report too. Very strange. I would get very nervous if I saw "microsft" in a firewall log.
That seems to be a typo, it should be microsoft.com for all these hosts.
Re: German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis
#29Does anyone know if there is a tool to safely remove telemetry executables from Win10? Is it possible to remove these?
You could set up the proxy for (not Microsoft) web browser on your router and disallow all the traffic forwarding other than going via that proxy.
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#30Does anyone know if there is a tool to safely remove telemetry executables from Win10? Is it possible to remove these?
You could set up the proxy for (not Microsoft) web browser on your router and disallow all the traffic forwarding other than going via that proxy.
See chapter 3 of the linked German paper
> https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/BSI/Cyber-Si...
for other suggestions. The variant with an HTTP proxy is described in section 3.2.1.