[zeugma]

Actually, the fact that they’ve hardwired it to an IP that is now know makes it possible to block this outbound at thr router

[dayglored]

> Actually, the fact that they’ve hardwired it to an IP that is now know makes it possible to block this outbound at the router

Yeah, I would trust a hardware firewall rule to block it.

Using the Windows software firewall, not so much -- they can change that at will and have done so in the past, so I wouldn't put it past them to sense for blocking and open it up, silently.