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		drivebyacct2 on May 17, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows 7 Network Awareness: How Windows knows it ... if you're paranoid enough to disable this, you shouldn't be using windows. there are far more and better ways for windows and other windows software to phone home.

Blarat on May 17, 2011 [–]

I think that making it phone your own NCSI server instead would be quite interesting, just in case your computer gets stolen.

omh on May 17, 2011 | [–]

It could be useful for corporate laptop users. I can imagine using this so that I know the IP address and connectivity status of remote users to use when they call in with issues.

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