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Re: Disable connections to Internet without user's consent

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Cindy Sue Causey wrote: 
> What about popularity-contest? Regardless of whether it fits in here,
> am hoping it maybe triggers thoughts of other packages that quietly
> phone home.

popcon defaults to off; you have to opt-in.

> As fast as I typed that, I remembered something I experienced a number
> of years ago. Certain screensavers used to pull from websites without
> my initial knowledge. I don't know how I eventually tripped over the
> fact that they did, but it was a momentarily frightening discovery. It
> was one of those times that TRUST in Debian Developers' thorough
> testing of packages came consciously to mind.

There are screensaver modules that pull quotes from remote
sites. They aren't a default, though.

firefox-esr is a prime candidate, but only when it's running.

-dsr-

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Disable connections to Internet without user's consent Andrea Monaco <andrea.monaco@autistici.org> - 2022-05-17 23:20 +0200
  Re: Disable connections to Internet without user's consent IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2022-05-18 00:40 +0200
  Re: Disable connections to Internet without user's consent Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-05-18 01:00 +0200
    Re: Disable connections to Internet without user's consent Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2022-05-18 05:50 +0200
      Re: Disable connections to Internet without user's consent <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-05-18 06:30 +0200
      Re: Disable connections to Internet without user's consent Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-05-18 14:50 +0200
    Re: Disable connections to Internet without user's consent Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2022-05-18 20:00 +0200

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