Text entered into Windows' Run dialogue gets sent to Microsoft's telemetry

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  • xfce4-docklike-plugin

    A modern, minimalist taskbar for Xfce

  • privatezilla

    👀👮🐢🔥Performs a privacy & security check of Windows 10

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • WindowsSpyBlocker

    Block spying and tracking on Windows

  • Also, I block MS telemetry hosts on my router's dns server: https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/blob/master/d...

  • Lauschgeraet

    Gets in the way of your victim's traffic and out of yours

  • I wrote such a tool once: https://github.com/SySS-Research/Lauschgeraet

    Unfortunately, no one really uses it (not even me) and it is probably full of bugs.

  • hallucinate

    One-stop TLS traffic inspection and manipulation using dynamic instrumentation

  • TLS is meant to protect data in transit. On your own machine, where you have full privileges, there is in principle nothing that stops you from observing traffic before/after it's encrypted.

    Examples:

    * https://github.com/SySS-Research/hallucinate

  • SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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