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Re: What is the domain "nrb.footprintdns.com"??
Apparently this domain is exclusively being used bij Microsoft to track your activity. That also explains why applications like Outlook and Excel both use it, but also website like Office365 and SharePoint. It looks like only authenticated users are being tracked, but I'm not totally sure. The reason why Kasperspy comes up with an issue about the authenticity of the domain is rather simple: some application is trying to access a domain (*.nrb.footprintdns.com) while the channel (outlook.office.com or live.com depending from the application you use) uses a certificate that does not match the url. So why is Microsoft doing this? Well, that's (sort of) easy. Tracking your users' activity helps improving the product. Okay, that's the political/marketing way of saying it of course. But for business reasons Microsoft is also collecting data from their users, for all kinds of reasons. I would never expect a company like Microsoft to sell data like this (for it would mean their destruction). But using it for ads, improving their products, statistical data for having the best availability will be among the reasons. Also technically it's a good practise to use a separate service for this kind of activity. Being such a large company it's no surprise MSFT connected it to a different domain. Although it surprises me that they didn't use a microsoft.com domain.83KViews0likes1Comment
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