[–] 6055273? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
there is no fucking 'cloud connection' it's
If there is no connection, then how is income data entering from the Internet inside your PC? Magic?
Maybe your firewall is letting it pass because you just sent a request to that site and it allows all new data from that site entering inside your firewall. You punched a hole in your firewall defense that would not have been there when you used a none-cloud application instead.
[–] sixsicsix 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
incoming data from the Internet is always coming in aimed at either a listening service, or an ephemeral port.
windows firewall - and most other OS-level firewalls - are stateful and allow a connection, once opened on an ephemeral port, to stay open as long as it's kept alive (until the keepalive timout is reached without any KA being sent by the client) or until either side hits the client or server timeout.
there is no hole punched in a firewall. it's software interacting, or coming online on an ip address listening for incoming TCP/UDP on a specific port
you would be implying that the system is reaching out to the Internet to push data to a remote system.
which is possible, and validated via packet capture.
[–] 6056425? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
That data would not be able to come in and reach the internal network in if you did not send out the request first. So it does punch a hole in the firewall that would not have existed there if the application, you use did not reach into the Internet. More different cloud connection, more holes you have punched in your firewall that can be hijacked by a malicious router/site.