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I have a network-wide pi hole and I noticed that it requested activity.windows.com, a url blocked by my pi hole, even while my pc is suspended. I pinged 10.0.0.217 and it is currently unreachable. So, somehow, windows pc’s turn on networking, phones home, and turns off even while suspended.

Creepy behavior

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[–] cooopsspace@infosec.pub 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah and they all work on Linux.

The ones that don't can get fucked.