Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings
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#2If this test was correct, this smells like a class-action. Enterprise users (and home users, for that matter), have a right to control egress.
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#3Does anyone know a good updated firewall whitelist to allow just Windows Updates and nothing else?
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#4Scary indeed, I've noticed that a Windows 10 'Pro' VM I have at times seems to reset or change privacy / security settings. A first I blamed myself for doing something silly without realising it affected these settings or installing some software that changed them (which is a little scary in itself) but then I realised it was after windows update had run, every few months privacy or security behaviour would change.
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#5Does anyone know a good updated firewall whitelist to allow just Windows Updates and nothing else?
Any reason why you believe it would respect those rules? Note the one example where a rule was dynamically added to the firewall in the tweets listed here.
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#6Does anyone know a good updated firewall whitelist to allow just Windows Updates and nothing else?
What does a firewall help when Windows can bypass it in the kernel?
And embedded stuff aside, a system with a firewall whitelist on a separate box is unusable for daily use...
Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings
#7Does anyone know a good updated firewall whitelist to allow just Windows Updates and nothing else?
Any reason why you believe it would respect those rules? Note the one example where a rule was dynamically added to the firewall in the tweets listed here.
Presumably you would put the rules at the router level not the os.
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#8That's surprising. I would expect the Enterprise edition to perform as advertised. It's a major revenue source and this violates all kinds of security policies.
I find the author's point about people using third-party programs to stop Windows spying, and potentially impairing their security, very telling. He's absolutely correct.
I use programs called Shutup10 and WinAero Tweaker to stop the telemetry myself, and both of these programs have settings that would potentially impair your security, primarily by stopping Windows Updates entirely.
So the real question is this-- is this debacle the consumer's fault or Microsoft's? I know which side I'm on.
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#9I run Windows in a Parallels VM on my Mac. This VM needs to, on occasion, connect to the Internet. Any way I can--from the outside, without needing to trust Windows--be forced to whitelist what the VM is and isn't allowed connect to?
Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings
#10Does anyone know a good updated firewall whitelist to allow just Windows Updates and nothing else?
Any reason why you believe it would respect those rules? Note the one example where a rule was dynamically added to the firewall in the tweets listed here.
That doesn't matter if you're using a DNS blackhole or hardware firewall. Of course, MS could hard-code some IP addresses, too.