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Re:Microsoft is phoning home the content of your PowerPoint ... by dagmx on Monday November 07, 2022 @11:54AM (#33508432)
That assumes people actually have the capacity to examine the source to do so and make the requisite adjustments.

The real answer IMHO is to control your networking stack outside of your computer instead. Firewall that and you have way better security

Re:Microsoft is phoning home the content of your PowerPoint ... by three_seagrass on Monday November 07, 2022 @12:13PM (#33508764)
How do you do packet inspection when they're all encrypted?
Re:Microsoft is phoning home the content of your PowerPoint ... by M95D on Monday November 07, 2022 @12:38PM (#33509157)
You install a proxy server that MITMs all connections and reencrypts data with your own certificate that you install in your system.
Re:Microsoft is phoning home the content of your PowerPoint ... by 05 on Monday November 07, 2022 @12:39PM (#33509178)
TLS MITM. But you better be 100% sure your middle box is not compromised.
Re:Microsoft is phoning home the content of your PowerPoint ... by Melatonic on Monday November 07, 2022 @05:48PM (#33513639)
This. Not so hard to do and lots of corporations already do it.

But yeah - whatever you are running on that box better be legit!

Re:Microsoft is phoning home the content of your PowerPoint ... by dagmx on Monday November 07, 2022 @12:29PM (#33509030)
You can still inspect whether you’re having packets sent when you add text or just when you click on certain options

You could add large amounts of text and see if the packets increase proportionally.

You can perhaps analyze which apps or extensions are sending packets.

This post doesn’t provide enough information of value

Re:Microsoft is phoning home the content of your PowerPoint ... by smolder on Thursday November 10, 2022 @09:29AM (#33546939)
> You can still inspect whether you’re having packets sent when you add text or just when you click on certain options

Batching very commonly obscures this kind of UI interaction reporting.