A Traffic Analysis of Windows 10

Found this originally on GLP. Below the quote are the translated and original article:

https://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2932316/pg1 :

Quote :

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


Telemetry is sent once per 5 minutes, to:

vortex.data.microsoft.com
vortex-win.data.microsoft.com
telecommand.telemetry.microsoft.com
telecommand.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
sqm.telemetry.microsoft.com
sqm.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net

typing the name of any popular movie into your local file search starts a telemetry process that indexes all media files on your computer and transmits them to:

df.telemetry.microsoft.com
reports.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com
cs1.wpc.v0cdn.net
vortex-sandbox.data.microsoft.com
pre.footprintpredict.com


When a webcam is first enabled, ~35mb of data gets immediately transmitted to:

oca.telemetry.microsoft.com
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
vortex-sandbox.data.microsoft.com
i1.services.social.microsoft.com
i1.services.social.microsoft.com.nsatc.net


Everything that is said into an enabled microphone is immediately transmitted to:

oca.telemetry.microsoft.com
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
vortex-sandbox.data.microsoft.com
pre.footprintpredict.com
i1.services.social.microsoft.com
i1.services.social.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
telemetry.appex.bing.net
telemetry.urs.microsoft.com
cs1.wpc.v0cdn.net
statsfe1.ws.microsoft.com


If this weren't bad enough, this behaviour still occurs after Cortana is fully disabled/uninstalled. It's speculated that the purpose of this function to build up a massive voice database, then tie those voices to identities, and eventually be able to identify anyone simply by picking up their voice, whether it be a microphone in a public place or a wiretap on a payphone.

Interestingly, if Cortana is enabled, the voice is first transcribed to text, then the transcription is sent to:

pre.footprintpredict.com
reports.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com
df.telemetry.microsoft.com


While the inital reflex may be to block all of the above servers via HOSTS, it turns out this won't work: Microsoft has taken the care to hardcode certain IPs, meaning that there is no DNS lookup and no HOSTS consultation. However, if the above servers are blocked via HOSTS, Windows will pretend to be crippled by continuously throwing errors, while still maintaining data collection in the background. Other than an increase in errors, HOSTS blocking did not affect the volume, frequency, or rate of data being transmitted.

http://localghost.org/posts/a-traffic-analysis-of-windows-10


http://aeronet.cz/news/analyza-windows-10-ve-svem-principu-jde-o-pouhy-terminal-na-sber-informaci-o-uzivateli-jeho-prstech-ocich-a-hlasu/

APPLE doing this since years and no one cries ...

nephie_cc wrote:

APPLE doing this since years and no one cries ...

Yes thats true. And even before that there was ECHELON.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

REALLY CANNER LOL



if you would have changed the ''nl'' in the url to ''en'' ... you lazy dutchman

nephie_cc wrote:

REALLY CANNER LOL



if you would have changed the ''nl'' in the url to ''en'' ... you lazy dutchman

oh yes ofcourse, didn't even notice

If that dutch bothers you, you can always select another language on the leftside.

Have changed it specially for you so you don't have to move your mouse al the way left and search for the correct language.

rofl...i love how CANNER explain how to change lang.on wiki website

How do we know that none of this is already happening?

NuclearDiarrhea wrote:

How do we know that none of this is already happening?

It is already happening, but windows10 is taking it to a new level. Instantly feeding your personal crap and profile to a global AI cloud system. It creates like a 24/7 facebook type personal log of your time behind the pc, phone or tablet. Can you imagine this shit on a chip-implant? And beside that, Local authorities/police, insurance companies, etc, could get free acces to the AI cloud to find whatever they need to know about you. They are already doing this with most large social media sites.