[m8urn]

Even with Enterprise edition it is very difficult to disable all telemetry. The lowest official setting for telemetry is "security" which still sends data to Microsoft (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/confi...).

There are, however, a number of hacks that can trim that down even further. But being hacks they aren't guaranteed to always work--things frequently change.

Since writing the article mentioned a couple comments up I have tried completely ripping out all telemetry components from the install CD, which seems to be the most effective option. Tools such as Blackbird (http://www.getblackbird.net/) also are quite effective. Nonetheless, monitoring traffic still shows connections to Microsoft-controlled servers. There are so many ways Microsoft (and therefore possible governments) can gather--or at least infer--information about your system.

To completely protect yourself would require manually monitoring, selecting, and installing updates, manually updating certificate revocation lists, constantly watching for new settings (including firewall and hosts entries) that must be addressed, etc.

So no, it is not possible to completely disable all forms of Windows 10 telemetry without also committing to an unreasonable amount of work.