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How Windows 7 Knows About Your Internet Connection
An anonymous reader writes "In Windows 7, any time you connect to a network, Windows tells you if you have full internet access or just a local network connection. It also knows if a WiFi access point requires in-browser authentication. How? It turns out, a service automatically requests a file from a Microsoft website every time you connect to any network, and the result of this attempt tells it whether the connection is successful. This feature is useful, but some may have privacy concerns with sending their IP address to Microsoft (which the site logs, according to documentation) every single time they connect to the internet. As it turns out, not only can you disable the service, you can even tell it to check your own server instead."
Do you get paid to post that bullshit?
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
People, please restore my faith in humanity and mod this troll down. I don't care what you think about Google or Microsoft or any other company, this is pure astroturf and belongs in the basement.
The soylentnews experiment has been a dismal failure.