What, really? Your source is "some Czech guy?" I mean maybe it's true and maybe it's not, but at the same time an article that presumably doesn't link the original article because they don't want people just going directly there and which might be quoting the most lunatic fringe conspiracy theory is not worth taking particularly seriously. A five-minute search tends to indicate that this guy:
Note the comment of "Stephen Smoogen" to the apparent systemoverlord's "check" of the claims (which was on VM, and using pre-release Windows):
"There is also a difference if your network link is detected as being 'metered' (in that if the system thinks the network is metered it will not send as much data). I have noticed that for other windows what a system sends if it is on 'real' hardware or virtual machine are also different. My guess is that Microsoft assumes a 'guest' machine isn't real and worth checking.
To test the article, I would expect that I would need to set up a hub, put the box and the capture system on it and run it on a live hardware with a 'real' account. Without doing that then 'results will vary' is going to be the norm."
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What, really? Your source is "some Czech guy?" I mean maybe it's true and maybe it's not, but at the same time an article that presumably doesn't link the original article because they don't want people just going directly there and which might be quoting the most lunatic fringe conspiracy theory is not worth taking particularly seriously. A five-minute search tends to indicate that this guy:
https://systemoverlord.com/blog/2015/08/16/so-is-windows-10-...
hasn't been able to reproduce the traffic analysis on casual inspection.
Edit: Here's what I believe to be the original source of the claim:
http://aeronet.cz/news/analyza-windows-10-ve-svem-principu-j...
And the translation:
http://localghost.org/posts/a-traffic-analysis-of-windows-10
I highly doubt the source was a Czechoslovakian guy because Czechoslovakia no longer exists. Maybe someone from the Czech Republic though.
Ah, good point -edits-
Note the comment of "Stephen Smoogen" to the apparent systemoverlord's "check" of the claims (which was on VM, and using pre-release Windows):
"There is also a difference if your network link is detected as being 'metered' (in that if the system thinks the network is metered it will not send as much data). I have noticed that for other windows what a system sends if it is on 'real' hardware or virtual machine are also different. My guess is that Microsoft assumes a 'guest' machine isn't real and worth checking.
To test the article, I would expect that I would need to set up a hub, put the box and the capture system on it and run it on a live hardware with a 'real' account. Without doing that then 'results will vary' is going to be the norm."