Windows pc calling home (even while asleep) - eviltoast

I have a network-wide pi hole and I noticed that it requested activity.windows.com, a url blocked by my pi hole, even while my pc is suspended. I pinged 10.0.0.217 and it is currently unreachable. So, somehow, windows pc’s turn on networking, phones home, and turns off even while suspended.

Creepy behavior

  • selokichtli@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    So, let me grasp your comment, are you saying that this is not creepy at all?

    EDIT: To clarify, I find both things creepy, the telemetry and the insistence to ping home no matter what.

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      1 year ago

      The fact that windows has so much telemetry is creepy yes. The fact that it will keep trying to ping the domain when blocked is not creepy and is basic tech functionality.

    • Oliver Lowe@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      are you saying that this is not creepy at all?

      Definitely creepy that it phones home in the first place.

      But it’s not necessarily creepy that it keeps trying; it could just be sloppy programming. Hanlon’s Razor comes to mind. Microsoft Teams behaved in a similar way apparently. If you blocked it phoning home at the network level it would buffer gigabytes of data on disk until the disk was full.