Reply 120 of 228, by SquallStrife
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wrote:That is scary stuff if it was true. But i wonder if this is a Hoax?
I'd been linked that article a couple of days ago. It contains a lot of half-truths, conjecture, and not much evidence.
They don't disclose what build they're running, how they had the system configured when these "phone home" events took place, whether they're running a full version or a "free" Insider Program version, etc.
It's not a hoax, I don't think, but there is a load of mis-information and assumptions out there WRT to Windows 10, with only circumstantial evidence to corroborate it.
E.g. in that "localghost.org" article's Czech source, the author rightly says (to paraphrase) "What I suspect is X, but it would take some deeper reverse engineering to uncover the truth", which gets mangled by places like "localghost.org" into "Holy crap, WINDWOS 10 ABSOLUTELY ACTUALLY DOES X".
All I can tell you is that I've been running a copy that was upgraded from retail Windows 8.1 Pro, and I certainly don't have random 15~80MB uploads periodically during the day. I would see it on MRTG if that were the case.
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