🚀 go-pugleaf

Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:
> In article presence@MUNGEpanix.com says...
>> > Since no one posts here I thought I'd try and add something interesting.  
>> > I put my PC on a quiet subnet to check on something and noticed google 
>> > updates was phoning home every single minute using http with a rather 
>> > lengthy session.  This chatter was filling up my logs so I investigated 
>> 
>> snooping on you no doubt.
>> 
>> don't trust google.
> 
> I try to keep the snooping to a minimum but realize being snooped upon 
> is one of the costs of using the tubes.  I like running a clean PC -- no 
> useless running process, no bullshit traffic.  A clean PC is a secure 
> PC.  Windows is very chatty on the LAN and pretty god damned stupid 
> about it.  There's a good reason why Windows users get hacked on 
> unsecured networks -- they broadcast all kinds of useless bullshit so 
> the bad guys don't even need a scanner to ID them as a target.
> 
> I almost have my laptop completely silent.  I still have some IGMP and 
> LLMNR traffic to that multi-cast address that I can't stop because 
> apparently I'm using the el cheapo Home version of Windows 7 so I can't 
> make the necessary registry changes.  Fucking greedy Windows 
> motherfuckers.  Firefox keeps phoning home for update info even after I 
> turned that off in the options.  I'm not so concerned about that but 
> don't understand why they can't just phone home once when the browser 
> starts and be done with it.

just use IE and stop dicking around.

other browsers are junk.