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Comment by jfrunyon

Can't duplicate. Also, I'm a bit curious how this person is able to see HTTP2 contents in Wireshark, given its almost-mandatory TLS. Also, I'm extremely surprised that Microsoft would send telemetry without encryption.

Also, I'm a bit curious why this looks more like a request that it would send when someone types a search into the Startmenu rather than the Run box.

In fact, when typing into (or even running from) the Run box, I see no network requests over ports 80/443. When typing into the Startmenu, I see network requests going to the same M$ IP shown (204.79.197.200), but they are, of course, TLS-encrypted on port 443. Even if I block port 443 in the Windows firewall, it does not fall back to port 80.

This is either false, or version dependent. I would lean towards the former. Frankly, if this is real, a bigger problem than the sending of telemetry is the sending of unencrypted telemetry.

parent jfrunyon 5 years ago

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