Hi, Some people know me by name in the Matrix room. I am working on the Windows Guide for PG. I am following Windows Hardening and Privacy Guide by Beerisgood on Github for this. I worked a lot on it. But due to many conflicts in the PR. I closed it and working on the same in a new one. I would li…

There are a number of community-written Windows guides now published here: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/tags/c/community-wiki/9411/windows This is how we are going to move forward: If you have a problem with or suggestion for one of the community-written guides at the link above, please r…

[image] anon34108895: This is NOT recommended as it disables Windows Update and lots of important things. Pls read further what I wrote. I wrote to patch the policy so that it won’t disable security critical things like Windows update. It’s less work to apply everything and patch only the few…

[image] dngray: Likely the reason that is because the baseline disables much of the reliance on MS and is really meant to be used in high security environments where devices are part of a larger workgroup with local WSUS . Well, it’s a baseline. They are supposed to be adjusted and that’s also…

[image] anon34108895: [image] dngray: a larger workgroup with local WSUS Oh I never thinked about that. Should PG provide guides for such users? No, i don’t think so, because that requires a windows server as well, and really ads no privacy benefit. You also then need to do a tonne of …

I think there are 3 threads about this Windows Guide, could we just use one ?

Advice Definitely feel free to use my original post as an inspiration, but do acknowledge if you use some of it. Note: @anon34108895 has contributed the most to that post and @sha123 has also contributed. As I said before keep it simple, do not overwhelm yourselves, we do not need to explain the pu…

Why are we including Microsoft Edge in the Windows Guide ? I see no reason to use Edge, which isn’t a desktop browser recommended by PG (neither is Safari). Now I understand we include for Microsoft Office as it might be a reason people use Windows in the first place, but I don’t see Edge as having…

[image] anon80779245: Why are we including Microsoft Edge in the Windows Guide ? The main reason is because if you’re already on Windows you can make use of Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Defender Application Guard | Microsoft Learn which further isolates the browser.

So this a great security but terrible privacy type of scenario ?

[image] dngray: The main reason is because if you’re already on Windows you can make use of Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Defender Application Guard | Microsoft Learn which further isolates the browser. Edge configuration should be separated from a Windows guide and have a big warning because…

I agree, I think if we did anything in that regard should just be a blog post and not part of the main guide as that’s a better place for content which could go out of date quite quickly/need updating.

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dngray (Daniel Gray) April 4, 2024, 3:43am 197

I have locked the two other threads

'Hardening' Windows - #115
Instructions on Hardening Windows (What I Have Learnt So Far) - #54

and want to direct the discussion here. I thought about merging the threads but that might create a bit of unnecessary clutter.

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