Updates make Win 7/8 phone home

Moderators: b1o, jkerr82508

User avatar
viking60
Über-Berserk
Posts: 9351
Joined: 14 Mar 2010, 16:34

Updates make Win 7/8 phone home

Postby viking60 » 31 Aug 2015, 13:01

Image
Microsoft's Windows 10 has gotten its fair share of criticism regarding privacy violations. but that is not enough for world domination, so Microsoft has made two updates to make Windows 7 and Windows 8 phone home too.

These updates are...
:drummer
:drummer
KB3075249 and KB3080149

Naturally these are for your own good and - as always - Microsoft and the government know what that is; better than you.

In this case they trace your whereabouts or rather the whereabouts of your computer (telemetry).

Microsoft's explanations are rather blurry and make no sense regarding this.
This update adds telemetry points to the User Account Control (UAC) feature to collect information on elevations that come from low integrity levels.

This is done by update KB3075249

KB3080149 makes sure that the tracking works on older systems.

The tech part:
The included service uses SSL (TCP Port 443) to download manifests and upload data to Microsoft when data is available for upload. The service uses the following DNS endpoints:
vortex-win.data.microsoft.com
settings-win.data.microsoft.com
This update contains the following two manifests that are occasionally updated by the Diagnostic Tracking Service:
telemetry.ASM-WindowsDefault.json
utc.app.json


You can remove both of those updates as regular software in the Control panel.

Both those Updates were in the optional update list (in addition to the important ones) so I simply did not download them (Windows 7)

More here
Manjaro 64bit on the main box -Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz and nVidia Corporation GT200b [GeForce GTX 275] (rev a1. + Centos on the server - Arch on the laptop.
"There are no stupid questions - Only stupid answers!"

User avatar
Snorkasaurus
Berserk
Posts: 587
Joined: 30 Dec 2013, 19:19
Contact:

Re: Updates make Win 7/8 phone home

Postby Snorkasaurus » 31 Aug 2015, 15:10

Thank you... vortex-win.data.microsoft.com and settings-win.data.microsoft.com have been added to my block list. :-)
s.

User avatar
R_Head
Berserk
Posts: 2818
Joined: 17 Mar 2010, 15:40

Re: Updates make Win 7/8 phone home

Postby R_Head » 31 Aug 2015, 15:12

Sound like Win-Win situation to me... :lolup

User avatar
viking60
Über-Berserk
Posts: 9351
Joined: 14 Mar 2010, 16:34

Re: Updates make Win 7/8 phone home

Postby viking60 » 31 Aug 2015, 15:13

Great list! :s Lets make it as complete as possible.
Manjaro 64bit on the main box -Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz and nVidia Corporation GT200b [GeForce GTX 275] (rev a1. + Centos on the server - Arch on the laptop.
"There are no stupid questions - Only stupid answers!"

User avatar
Snorkasaurus
Berserk
Posts: 587
Joined: 30 Dec 2013, 19:19
Contact:

Re: Updates make Win 7/8 phone home

Postby Snorkasaurus » 31 Aug 2015, 15:59

My list is of course a mere drop in the bucket when compared to the MVP Hosts List, but I like to think it is helping. :-)
s.

User avatar
dedanna1029
Sound-Berserk
Posts: 8780
Joined: 14 Mar 2010, 20:29
Contact:

Re: Updates make Win 7/8 phone home

Postby dedanna1029 » 02 Sep 2015, 18:55

viking60 wrote:KB3075249 and KB3080149

Good. I have neither.
I'd rather be a free person who fears terrorists, than be a "safe" person who fears the government.
No gods, no masters.
"A druid is by nature anarchistic, that is, submits to no one."
http://uk.druidcollege.org/faqs.html

User avatar
dedanna1029
Sound-Berserk
Posts: 8780
Joined: 14 Mar 2010, 20:29
Contact:

Re: Updates make Win 7/8 phone home

Postby dedanna1029 » 02 Sep 2015, 19:35

Snorkasaurus wrote:my block list. :-)
s.

You block Soundcloud? For shame.
I'd rather be a free person who fears terrorists, than be a "safe" person who fears the government.
No gods, no masters.
"A druid is by nature anarchistic, that is, submits to no one."
http://uk.druidcollege.org/faqs.html

User avatar
Snorkasaurus
Berserk
Posts: 587
Joined: 30 Dec 2013, 19:19
Contact:

Re: Updates make Win 7/8 phone home

Postby Snorkasaurus » 08 Sep 2015, 05:50

dedanna1029 wrote:You block Soundcloud? For shame.

I block any domain that serves ads, malware, or tracking. I don't recall specifically what got them listed, but I believe it may have been autoplay embedding without volume control.
s.

User avatar
dedanna1029
Sound-Berserk
Posts: 8780
Joined: 14 Mar 2010, 20:29
Contact:

Re: Updates make Win 7/8 phone home

Postby dedanna1029 » 08 Sep 2015, 20:47

Oh. I just use Adblock Plus in my browser, with the Element Hiding Helper. I've not come across an ad in Soundcloud even without it; it is an open source place for indie musicians to try to get off the ground.

I just use my own volume control and don't worry about it.
I'd rather be a free person who fears terrorists, than be a "safe" person who fears the government.
No gods, no masters.
"A druid is by nature anarchistic, that is, submits to no one."
http://uk.druidcollege.org/faqs.html

User avatar
dedanna1029
Sound-Berserk
Posts: 8780
Joined: 14 Mar 2010, 20:29
Contact:

Re: Updates make Win 7/8 phone home

Postby dedanna1029 » 08 Sep 2015, 21:54

viking60 wrote:This is done by update KB3075249

KB3080149 makes sure that the tracking works on older systems.

Every time there are updates for the laptop, I check this thread now and compare. It took time, but these updates finally came in. They prevented me from being able to boot to usb, Microsuck thought it was that important.

I have news. Out of the 31 updates listed, I unticked these two and went for it - I'll deal with how the updates prevented me from booting to usb when I'm set to boot to it first in BIOS, later.

Arseholes.

It's effing stupid enough that this crap OS even exists, much less that it's forced on us. It's driving me out of my mind. I seriously feel like shooting the lappy on several fronts, this thing is such crap and not user-friendly.

And to think it's all due to the black magic of overbloated bullshit.
I'd rather be a free person who fears terrorists, than be a "safe" person who fears the government.
No gods, no masters.
"A druid is by nature anarchistic, that is, submits to no one."
http://uk.druidcollege.org/faqs.html


Return to “Win News”