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It's a huge bummer that the (wildly implausible) results he got didn't discourage him from spreading them widely. He later said they were 'unexpected' and he was working on verifying them from scratch reproducibly, but that comes only after misinformation about telemetry is spreading around the web. :(

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I actually didn't spread them widely, I tweeted them. If you follow me you would know I tweet things like that all the time. I observed these connections and showed the settings I have set that should have prevented them.

I haven't published results anywhere and many people, including in the comments here, have corroborated what I saw.

The results are the results. I am re-verifying before I publish anything on this and to provide a script so that others can reproduce the results. That certainly does not make it wildly implausible.

It would be nice if you could provide the script you're using in your tests (instead of using the GUI) and the ISO checksum, so people can review it.

I don't know if this will be of any help but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13727712

Tweeting your results is publishing them.

But the major result shown was your incompetence in setting GPOs.

You should be retracting your 'findings' until you learn how to use Windows properly, not doubling down on your claims. What an embarrassment.

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