This can still be easily blocked or poisoned. The IP addresses have to be hard coded. All that will happen is the businesses, providers, or even countries will block or forge the response from this address.

Falsifying the URL bar (even if for simplicity) is a behavior of malware. If you want us to associate your product with malware please keep coming up with ideas like this.

This is where parallel construction comes in. They create a fictitious story as to how they obtained the data. Look up the term if you don't know what i'm talking about.

I agree totally. Thank you, thank you Microsoft, for once in decades you have made my life easier not harder. As of now the use of a MS account or the store (for the same reason) is a termination event in the business. That means no one drive, and no new revenue streams (IE no new MS office). Not only have you made my life easier, you have made it cheaper. Plonk, Bye Bye

Seriously, I already block most MS servers (Except Updates and CRLs. I don't run on an actual metered line, but live in an extreme rural area, DSL @ .4-.5 mbs FTW) and don't want updates from 3 to 4 Windows 10 setups to murder the limited net access I have.

Before long Router vendors "SHOULD" be offering choices like "Block MS Telemetry", and "limit update times to certain times of the day", and "Block all unnecessary MS servers" option.

Its not hard to setup a linux firewall to block this stuff. And cron jobs that modify the firewall behavior at certain times aren't all that hard. If Microsoft pushes too hard someone will profit on mitigating the problem. And I don't think MS would want us to block entire sites like "IOnedrive", "Bing" and the "Store". I already block them at my business and home. Others should too until MS gets the message that their BS isn't acceptable.

My machine, my Network, my rules.

Of course there are choices. They just involve more work. Block telemetry at the edge firewall. Disable, and remove DiagTrack. Personally I run with Cortana ripped out by the short and curlies. Microsoft doesn't want their services blocked at the firewall, maybe they will learn. Now you can't buy MS Office without a Microsoft account. Guess we will be standardizing on LibreOffice.

Oh I see you work for the Russian MAAFIA. We have ways to make you work. LOL

There are many other choices that are easier to handle than cutting off your internet. Blocking the update IPs in Windows Firewall and/or Internet Edge routers (IE Linux NAT boxes). I personally block MS Telemetry, Store and other services I don't use at the Linux NAT. Works great but causes Win 10 to throw up dozens of events per week about connection attempts. I believe if MS wants to remove the choice then can, but they MUST accept LIABILITY if they break peoples machines. Let the class action lawsuit limit their theft of ownership of my and others computers.

While your statement maybe true about the mobs use for Vegas, the reality is the town in many ways was FAR better off under the Mafia. Far less crime (street crime, didnt want to discourage visitors), better treatment for Casio Workers (if you actually worked, not just put in time). That is why there is alot of nostalgia for the mafia days in people who lived through it. I was born in Vegas, and it has changed drastically over the years, and not for the better. Once the large corporate entitys moved into town, it was pretty much a forgone conclusion. The Egos of management were on line and the constant push to be larger (or better in their opinion) pretty much killed the town. Everyone knew we were building ourselves out of business. Bigger casinos DO NOT necessarily mean that you will get more business, but it will mean you have more expenses and will mean more debt. Vegas thought it was recession proof. And it was to some extent in the old days (before a massively linked global economy). In the old days when the US economy was down, Asia or Europe was generally up. With the tied economies when the crash came in 2008, business took a massive dive. I wont even get started on the real estate issues of Vegas. I still wont touch commercial real estate in that town. Their is way too much property sitting empty rotting. Whole strip malls, office buildings are sitting empty, fenced off, being stripped of copper wire and played in by children in this town. You learn to ignore property for rent or lease signs, they simply become part of the landscape.

You do realize that this is ALREADY the case. The data is sitting on European Servers in Ireland, not US Servers in the US. If Microsoft gives up the data, they will be in breach of European law and subject to sanction in Europe.

Both Gabapentin and Pregabalin are Generics. Different drugs. The brand name for Pregabain is Lyrica. Pregabalin is (S)-3-(aminomethyl)-5-methylhexanoic acid, while Gabapentin is 2-[1-(aminomethyl)cyclohexyl]acetic acid. Been on both, side effects for the Lyrica are hugely different than Gabapentin.

Seriously, this is a non trivial problem. It is hard to mechanically reverse engineer code (executable), yes I've tried it. Even with full source (as a compiler would have) determining what the condition of a stack or heap is NOT easy. Otherwise we would never have any bugs to fix ever. Yes there is some stupid code out there that is is obvious that it is insecure, now try writing code to determine even the simple problems. Determining at compile time what the condition of a stack or heap will be, when it is dependent on the state of the machine, is nigh on impossible. Work in ASM for a few years, or better yet, try to decompile code or write a compiler (optimizing preferable), and see how easy the problem is. There is no quick easy fix (short of the old definition of a secure computer, one that isn't plugged into a network or power LOL)

Sorry, Obama has signed a total of 167 orders to date for his entire presidency. Not 100's of orders per day. See http://www.archives.gov/federa... for a comparison of orders.

Here's the problem, the two are ALMOST mutually exclusive. (Please note ALMOST). One group wants bling ("Ooooh Shiny!!") and the other group wants functionality/stability, or (at least a way to minimize or customize the bling).

Why does most everybody think that just the cloud providers will be harmed. The firmware for switches/routers/hardware firewalls, etc is an ideal place to backdoor the networks. If I was going to spy on foreign governments that is where I would look to setup backdoors, in the infrastructure that DEFINES their networks.