Is Windows 10 Spying on My Home Network?

I know Windows 10 is spying on my machine but isn't is spying on my home network? Doesn't is send list of devices on my network to Microsoft? Is there a way we could check that? Is there a way to lookup what information is being sent from my Windows 10 machine to Microsoft? Maybe someone already did this and could share hes or hers finding here.

How to check it other devices on our home networks aren't spying on us? For example network printer, scanner or any other device.

Thanks,
Tom

Unfortunately I believe that all the information it sends back is encrypted so you cannot see what's in it.

You can however just cut off all communication through the hosts file if you find the addresses it is contacting.

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Barnacules thinks it's in plain text. He did discuss this with JayzTwoCents in tech talk 100 (1:55:55 and onwards deals with Win10, telemetry is discussed from 2:03:15 onwards).

We're all anxiously waiting on that packet sniffing video, Jerry ... :-p

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If it was plain text there would have been a huge news piece about it by now. Some of it may well be plain but I expect a lot of it to be hidden from end user eyes one way or another.

And if it were plain text I would be posting the fix right now.

So far I think the best I can do is get a router with firewall and network traffic monitor and block all suspicious traffic. I have dd-wrt rooted router but there's no control over firewall. And there's no traffic monitor.

When I was looking to replace my router (I have a separate FTTC modem) with something more configurable for a while I ran a Sophos UTM VM on my desktop. Dedicated a NIC to the WAN side and the onboard NIC shared with the desktop for the LAN side. Out of the box Sophos blocks most outbound traffic and I was seeing a lot of IPs listed in the Firewall log being blocked from communicating out from Windows 10.

This is the guide I used below. It's free for home use so worth a try.

see encryption is bad :)
CIA/NSA was right on the bat.

Ha. Well when you own the PC you should be able to control its comings and going one way or another.

yeah, but MS owns your PC have you forgotten T&C? haven't you read it? Oh wait - its pointing to website? so they can change what you accepted anytime they want (and they do change it - all the time)

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ya me too.