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Comment by gregmolnar | Hacker News Reader

I am not sure how legit is the source. It would be great if others could confirm these findings too.

As eager as I am to hop on the Windows 10 hate bandwagon, I've gotta agree with you. The author should disclose the original source if nothing else.

At this time, the closest thing to a source is "Some Czech guy did a traffic analysis of data<link to an unrelated disclose.tv page> produced by Windows 10, and released his findings the other day."

This is just appalling journalism if nothing else, and hurts both sides of the case.

EDIT: I retract some parts of that. The link to the source (in Czech) is tucked away discreetly at the bottom of the page: http://aeronet.cz/news/analyza-windows-10-ve-svem-principu-j...

And that "Czech" source is a Russian-affiliated propaganda mill that has a vested interested in making US companies look bad.

Source on this?

BIS (the Czech intelligence agency)

http://www.respekt.cz/z-noveho-cisla/putinuv-hlas-v-cesku

This came up the last time this article was posted on HN (that time, it was a Google Translate of the aeronet source).

It was discussed in the top comment and the replies to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10053420

Thanks for providing a source. The translated link you provided doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in their reliability. I'll believe what they're saying once they provide the exact methods they used to get these results in order to corroborate them.

The source is apparently, "Some Czech guy".

At least they plainly state at the beginning of the article: "Note: Some readers have commented that the original source for the article is of questionably validity. If anyone can confirm or refute the original author's finding with actual data, please let me know in the comments, and I'll update this post accordingly."

It would be good to see something confirming any of this. Even if all of this article's claims are false, it would be good to see a deep dive into exactly what is actually being sent and when.

It would feel less click-baity if they hadn't included the word "Terrifying". Let the reader decide where on the scale of fear the results fall.

Sounds like the source is this same guy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10053420

There's already lots of commentary there on the results.

If they are legit they should be straightforward for an experienced security researcher to confirm.

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