1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:06,210 You can configure the privacy settings manually in Windows 10 but this requires time and knowledge of 2 00:00:06,210 --> 00:00:07,220 all the settings. 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:11,330 Fortunately there are a number of automated tools to choose from to help. 4 00:00:11,580 --> 00:00:15,990 You still have to look at disabling the privacy features as a moving target. 5 00:00:15,990 --> 00:00:21,990 Microsoft will make up days and you will have to keep on top of any changes that need to be made to 6 00:00:21,990 --> 00:00:27,840 protect your privacy which is why Windows 10 isn't the right choice if privacy is paramount to you. 7 00:00:27,970 --> 00:00:33,180 But I think if you just want to minimize your tracking you could get away with Windows 10 as long as 8 00:00:33,180 --> 00:00:36,890 you stay on top of what needs to be blocked with it too. 9 00:00:36,900 --> 00:00:42,600 The hope is this software will keep up to date with any changes made by Microsoft and the latest information 10 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:44,300 in protecting privacy. 11 00:00:44,310 --> 00:00:50,190 So these are the current tools for automatically fixing the privacy issues in Windows 10. 12 00:00:50,190 --> 00:00:52,690 First you have destroy Windows 10 spine. 13 00:00:52,730 --> 00:00:55,210 This only affects host file changes. 14 00:00:55,260 --> 00:01:02,520 So that's no good at all explain why later than this when cold disable Windows 10 tracking that's written 15 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:05,070 in Python is open source. 16 00:01:05,100 --> 00:01:06,390 That's very good. 17 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:12,420 There's do not spy 10 which is closed source that does have explanations as to all the fix that it's 18 00:01:12,420 --> 00:01:14,740 making and you can do backups. 19 00:01:14,790 --> 00:01:20,830 There's Windows 10 privacy and shit which is a batch files that's open source. 20 00:01:20,850 --> 00:01:24,940 There's Windows 10 privacy fix which is open source. 21 00:01:25,230 --> 00:01:31,460 There's 10 privacy top10 that has backup functionality. 22 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:39,080 Spy bar anti-B can for Windows 10 and that's produced by a known anti-spyware company so you could say 23 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:42,380 there is some trust there built with those guys. 24 00:01:42,470 --> 00:01:51,330 There is a shampoo anti-spy a Windows 10 as back of functionality and there's windows privacy tweaker. 25 00:01:51,370 --> 00:01:56,310 Those are the ones I'm aware of many of these are made by pretty random developers. 26 00:01:56,310 --> 00:01:58,810 You don't really have much knowledge or background on them. 27 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:00,730 So you have to think about trust. 28 00:02:00,820 --> 00:02:06,880 Can you trust these people to have developed this software with your security and privacy in mind if 29 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:12,120 they are opensource and you understand the language they are written you can verify the software. 30 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:19,030 This is why it's best to go with open source as a tool for this because these are from trusted sources. 31 00:02:19,030 --> 00:02:21,300 You have no idea who has written some of these. 32 00:02:21,340 --> 00:02:26,470 And you don't know what extra bits of crap they've put into them which could be counter to your security 33 00:02:26,470 --> 00:02:33,040 or privacy which is why I go with an open source auction a couple of points about how these tools work. 34 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:35,800 They do things like disable services. 35 00:02:35,890 --> 00:02:43,690 They affect app access disable telemetry remove apps and firewall rules and the host files and other 36 00:02:43,690 --> 00:02:48,040 things the host file is a plain text file named hosts. 37 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:54,940 It stops the operating system making DNS requests to resolve a web address or domain name into an IP 38 00:02:54,940 --> 00:02:55,630 address. 39 00:02:55,630 --> 00:03:01,770 Now an example of that might be you put Google into the host file and a corresponding IP address. 40 00:03:01,930 --> 00:03:07,570 Then whenever you go to Google it doesn't need to do a DNS query it just looks in the host file first. 41 00:03:07,570 --> 00:03:15,250 Now what these tools are doing is they're using these hoes file to put in false IP addresses in correspondence 42 00:03:15,310 --> 00:03:21,280 to the phone home domain names to stop them calling back home to Microsoft. 43 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:26,860 So for example they might be to be a Microsoft dot com and they put in a corresponding IP address of 44 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:29,590 0 0 0 0 0. 45 00:03:29,780 --> 00:03:36,190 The host file is no longer the all powerful thing it used to be in Windows 10 Microsoft is hard coded 46 00:03:36,190 --> 00:03:42,010 IP addresses into the systems dynamically linked libraries effectively making domains and IP addresses 47 00:03:42,130 --> 00:03:46,200 on block cable by the operating system so HOST file doesn't work. 48 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:50,020 But not everything is hardcoded like this though. 49 00:03:50,170 --> 00:03:55,120 So some of the phone homes that Windows 10 does too can be blocked in the host file. 50 00:03:55,210 --> 00:03:59,210 The House will provide some benefit but it won't block everything. 51 00:03:59,230 --> 00:04:04,900 The other method that some of these tools use is to employ software firewall rules like the Windows 52 00:04:04,900 --> 00:04:11,200 firewall to block the phone homes again because the file sits on top of the operating system there is 53 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:16,160 no guarantee that they will block all the IP addresses and for all time. 54 00:04:16,180 --> 00:04:21,670 Plus if you're using the Windows Firewall which is a Microsoft product that isn't a good choice to block 55 00:04:21,700 --> 00:04:25,960 Microsoft IP addresses it would require testing and monitoring. 56 00:04:26,020 --> 00:04:33,460 The most effective way to block a phone homes is to block the addresses off the machine at your gateway 57 00:04:33,460 --> 00:04:38,740 device to the Internet so your router your hardware firewall etc.. 58 00:04:38,830 --> 00:04:41,690 And we'll talk more about that later and how you might do that.