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Even With Telemetry Disabled, Windows 10 Talks To Dozens of Microsoft Servers (voat.co)
An esteemed reader writes: Curious about the various telemetry and personal information being collected by Windows 10, one user installed Windows 10 Enterprise and disabled all of the telemetry and reporting options. Then he configured his router to log all the connections that happened anyway. Even after opting out wherever possible, his firewall captured Windows making around 4,000 connection attempts to 93 different IP addresses during an 8 hour period, with most of those IPs controlled by Microsoft. Even the enterprise version of Windows 10 is checking in with Redmond when you tell it not to — and it's doing so frequently.
Any monetary transactions I do these days is on my PC-BSD laptop or on either of my phones. I don't keep ANY financial stuff on my Windows laptop. Which btw, the only reason I have is that my work requires it. For all personal stuff, it's PC-BSD
> Ubuntu is worse, actually.
Lie.
>Not only does it send searches,
You can turn off the search send. It's being removed soon. If you care, don't use Ubuntu, use any other Linux. There's no one else providing distros of Windows to run to when Microsoft fails. They have failed.
> but each individual library or package can phone home to a different developer with different information collected about your system
First, it asks you each time, you can uncheck a box.
Second, here's your fix:
apt-get remove apport
Did you want to keep it around? Edit /etc/default/apport and change "enabled" to 0. Then it won't launch on boot.
It's optional, it can be disabled, and it asks you each fucking time anyway.
> There's also more incentive for Linux software to monetize user activity
There's no incentive for Linux (a kernel) to do this. There's no incentive for Linux as a general OS to do this. There is incentive for SOME companies that have Linux distributions to try to "monetize users", but you can, of course, simply not use their products- because Linux is a whole set of distributions.
Are you done with the fud? We'll never know AC, we'll never know.
I don't know about Ubuntu but the flavors of Linux I use most frequently don't appear to be connecting to anything other than the usual network services during a simple audit of network activity I've conducted; just the usual dns queries, web requests, smtp connections, time updates, etc. And I've walled them off completely they still boot normally, so, whatever.
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
Well, Linux is not only weak on the desktop, it doesn't even have one. Now KDE, Gnome, Mate, xfce, etc., they have desktops. The problem is that there are too many for a new user to wrap their mind around. I find that KDE is the best general desktop, with xfce next. Gnome used to be right up there, and for awhile Gnome2 was ahead of KDE4, but Gnome3 I find totally useless. (Some people seem to like it.) xfce works well in low resource environments, though if you've got a really low resource environment, there are other options...but they aren't suitable for a new user.
The problem is desktop applications. This has largely been well addressed, but not totally. There are still niches that are not well served by Linux based programs. And sometimes the problem is that people just don't want to learn a new program...which can be the real problem even though it may manifest as complaints about missing features that aren't really used.
FWIW, after decades of redoing work, I decided that proprietary file formats were totally unacceptable. So for me Linux is the far superior system.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
This is indicative of a more serious problem - the fact that Linux and FOSS zealotry is so great that they can't be bothered to learn anything about the systems they're attacking. Half the people I run in to who are like this think Windows 10 is just Windows 98 with a new skin.
Windows has faults - I think we can all agree on that. However if you're going to attack something at a fundamental level, you really should know that something well enough to understand what you're talking about. I find it doubtful that you can have that deep understanding if you've spent the last decade actively avoiding it.
As a community, we need to actively discourage FUD in all its forms - even when it's FUD that is attacking something we may not like.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
I'm afraid you need a citation for this. At least up until the 20 July plot at which point defeat was inevitable anyway, the only significant case that comes to mind is the dismissal of Gerd von Rundstedt, and that was at least 50% a resignation. And Hitler quickly recognized his mistake and restored von Rundstedt.
Now, Stalin was the real example. Shortly before WW2 he purged 5 of his 7 Field Marshalls, 13 of his 15 Army Commanders, 50 of 57 Corps Commanders, 154 of 186 Division Commanders, 16 of 16 Army Commissars, 25 oi 28 Corps Commissars and 8 of 9 Admirals. This was part of a great reign of terror that ripped through the USSR, in which 680,000 persons were executed by being shot in the head. Counting deaths in vicious "detention" in the Gulag and other consequential deaths, it is estimated that 1.2 million died.
There was another purge in 1941, right during the German invasion.
Many of those purged were "executed" - basically murdered.
This insanity was one of the chief reasons why in the initial stages of Operation Barbarossa the Germans cut through the USSR like a knife through butter, despite USSR superiority in numbers and advantage of defense.