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Re:Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10 by hirsin on Monday August 24, 2015 @02:48PM (#10112158)
Well, seeing that 80 MB every 15 minutes is over 35 Tb/s (at only 50 million Win 10 users [1]), and 12 Tb/s was the reigning speed record...

[1] http://www.winbeta.org/news/there-are-now-over-50-million-pe...

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Re:Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10 by agscala on Monday August 24, 2015 @04:55PM (#10112871)
No, that's actually 0.8 Mb/s
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Re:Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10 by hirsin on Monday August 24, 2015 @05:25PM (#10113007)
Yes, per person. At 50 million users, you need a 35 Tbps pipe to take in all that data.
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Re:Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10 by yellowapple on Monday August 24, 2015 @08:07PM (#10113608)
That can conceivably be split across multiple datacenters in multiple countries - something which Microsoft almost certainly has access to.
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Re:Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10 by hirsin on Monday August 24, 2015 @09:03PM (#10113803)
Even breaking it across multiple datacenters you're still hardpressed to do those speeds over a short period (weeks), let alone constantly over time [1]. My point was the physics in the parent don't work.

1. http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2015/07/windows-10-launch-hug...

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