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<blockquote data-quote="yitworths" data-source="post: 747304" data-attributes="member: 36772">regarding cortana it may provide you a good read - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-when-told-not-to-windows-10-just-cant-stop-talking-to-microsoft/" target="_blank">Cortana</a>. At this moment, I&#039;m using w10 in a VM &amp; have reduced the traffic to a very low level but it still connects to some websites on its own, may be those are benign but I ain&#039;t sure. &amp; keep in mind that almost every possible service/process is blocked. &amp; every update is making it harder for us to tweak it for better privacy. Today I was checking trend micro&#039;s connections by packet capturing on an un-tweaked windows 10, man I find much more windows connections to home than TM. In near future, probably ms operating systems andspyware will be synonymous.I&#039;m a bit confused by this... what is proved to be fake- the leak or the firewall blocking?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="yitworths, post: 747304, member: 36772"] regarding cortana it may provide you a good read - [URL='https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-when-told-not-to-windows-10-just-cant-stop-talking-to-microsoft/']Cortana[/URL]. At this moment, I'm using w10 in a VM & have reduced the traffic to a very low level but it still connects to some websites on its own, may be those are benign but I ain't sure. & keep in mind that almost every possible service/process is blocked. & every update is making it harder for us to tweak it for better privacy. Today I was checking trend micro's connections by packet capturing on an un-tweaked windows 10, man I find much more windows connections to home than TM. In near future, probably ms operating systems and spyware will be synonymous. I'm a bit confused by this... what is proved to be fake- the leak or the firewall blocking? [/QUOTE]

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