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The network connection status icon, found at the lower-right of the taskbar (the tray), is a privacy flaw.

This is because in order for it to operate, it has to reach out to check. Its first check will be its internal IP, to your router. Its second check is to ping a Microsoft server. This means every time your computer boots up, or wakes up, it’s informing..

• Windows itself
• Your router
• Your internet service provider (ISP)
• PRISM

• Microsoft

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