I spent three hours last Tuesday chasing a phantom spike in network traffic on one of our council workstations, only to find out it was just another “telemetry update” bypassing the standard settings. It’s the same old story: you search for how to control diagnostic data, click on a forum link from 2016, and copy-paste […]

I spent three hours last Tuesday wading through a “privacy hardening” forum thread that was essentially just a collection of people copy-pasting registry keys from 2012. It’s exhausting. Most of these guides on how to configure privacy settings are nothing more than digital superstition—people toggling switches they don’t understand because some YouTuber told them it […]