Chris Roper wrote on 06/24/16 05:47:
> Windows 10 is an Internet-Hosted solution so, if management are that
> paranoid, it is time to look at Linux rather than limit your SVN options =
to
> non internet in my opinion.

You can remove the Internet-hosted aspect if you are prepared to go to=20
the trouble of using only local accounts and not Microsoft accounts,=20
ignore Onedrive, disable Cortana and take many precautions by fiddling=20
with group policies and disabling all of the behind-the-scenes Microsoft=20
telemetry. You cannot rely on simply selecting the available privacy=20
options which do very little to stop your data leaking.

Despite all of that, I also had to default the Windows 10 firewall to=20
block all outgoing connections for which I had not created a specific=20
firewall rule. The final piece of the puzzle was to configure all=20
Windows 10 connections to go via a (FreeBSD) proxy which has its own=20
firewall.

As an example of the nefarious nature of the beast, even after using all=20
the available privacy settings (which all default to "no privacy"),=20
disabling Cortana and configuring the ever-present search bar not to=20
also search the web (Bing) so that only the local machine was searched,=20
Windows 10 *still* tries to send my local searches back to Microsoft.

And don't forget to turn off the peer-to-peer distribution of Microsoft=20
updates... that's caught out a few of my friends on quota-restricted=20
Internet connections.

But is it worth it? Only the OP can answer that. I keep it around in an=20
isolated Parallels VM under OS X for those Windows programs I=20
occasionally need and for which there is no satisfactory alternative=20
under FreeBSD or OS X.

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