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Windows 10 Privacy Concerns
ewemoa:
Thanks for the links.
IIUC, it may be relatively straight-forward to check from a terminal app in Android whether privacy extensions are in use:
--- ---ip a
The result may show information for various network interfaces -- for WiFi, a typical interface name is wlan0. Examine the displayed MAC address and IPv6 address -- roughly, if the last 3 bytes are the same in both, I think it's a good bet that (at least for that interface) the extensions are not in use.
Deozaan:
Thanks for the links.
IIUC, it may be relatively straight-forward to check from a terminal app in Android whether privacy extensions are in use:
--- ---ip a
The result may show information for various network interfaces -- for WiFi, a typical interface name is wlan0. Examine the displayed MAC address and IPv6 address -- roughly, if the last 3 bytes are the same in both, I think it's a good bet that (at least for that interface) the extensions are not in use.
-ewemoa (September 27, 2015, 06:08 PM)
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Seems disabled by default for my on the latest stock Android (Lollipop 5.1.1)! :tellme: :o
If anyone running Windows is curious to know if the privacy extensions are enabled on their PC, one can open a command prompt and type the following:
netsh interface ipv6 show privacy
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-Innuendo (September 27, 2015, 10:17 AM)
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I ran that command and got these results:
--- --->netsh interface ipv6 show privacy
Querying active state...
Temporary Address Parameters
---------------------------------------------
Use Temporary Addresses : enabled
Duplicate Address Detection Attempts: 3
Maximum Valid Lifetime : 7d
Maximum Preferred Lifetime : 1d
Regenerate Time : 5s
Maximum Random Time : 10m
Random Time : 5m27s
The "enabled" part makes me think I have the privacy option enabled, but when I check out ipconfig /all, I see my MAC in my IPv6 address...
Or maybe I'm just reading the results incorrectly.
ewemoa:
--- --->netsh interface ipv6 show privacy
Querying active state...
Temporary Address Parameters
---------------------------------------------
Use Temporary Addresses : enabled
Duplicate Address Detection Attempts: 3
Maximum Valid Lifetime : 7d
Maximum Preferred Lifetime : 1d
Regenerate Time : 5s
Maximum Random Time : 10m
Random Time : 5m27s-Deozaan (September 28, 2015, 12:12 AM)
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I tried the command for a Windows environment and observed "enabled" as well.
when I check out ipconfig /all, I see my MAC in my IPv6 address...
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FWIW, for ipconfig /all, when I look at the value for "Physical Address" and compare it with "Link-local IPv6 Address", I don't see much similarity.
Deozaan:
FWIW, for ipconfig /all, when I look at the value for "Physical Address" and compare it with "Link-local IPv6 Address", I don't see much similarity.-ewemoa (September 28, 2015, 01:16 AM)
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You're right! I was misreading it. I was looking at the value for "DHCPv6 Client DUID" (which contains my entire MAC) rather than "Link-local IPv6 Address."
Thanks!
ewemoa:
The following requires:
* An elevated Powershell console (it will immediately exit if the console isn't elevated);
* The Windows Update Powershell Module installed.
* Minimum Powershell version required should be v2+ since that's what WUPM requires, (I'm not sure if there's any specific cmdlets that require a later version).
* Some knowledge of Powershell ExecutionPolicy so I'm not answering questions :)-4wd (September 22, 2015, 07:50 AM)
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Spent some time wondering where Hide-WUUpdate was only to discover that this was added in the Windows Update Powershell Module in version 1.4.6 as mentioned here:
https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/PSWindowsUpdate/
Had inadvertently tried the 3 attachment links on the Module page and those happened to be for 1.3.4, 1.4.3, and 1.4.5...doh!
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