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Mmm trust MS and data to USA/UK ... Trust kasp and data to Russia.... I'll stick with Linux
If you use Ubuntu... Trust data to South Africa?
It's pretty unlikely Ubuntu is sharing anything with anyone - Including Canonical themselves.
Maybe. Certainly had a lot of flagged traffic to South Africa on my Pfsense/snort router when I used Ubuntu. The IP's belonged to Canonical when I checked what was getting blocked. I maintained the outbound blocks to SA. All the Linux stuff worked fine.....so I assume it was Ubuntu style telemetry........
I can find no evidence of Ubuntu having any form of telemetry beyond the Amazon/search debacle of ~2012, and even then any telemetry was easily disabled by flicking one easily located radio switch.
The OS is open source, I'm sure is there was telemetry in there, someone would have pointed it out by now.
apt-cache show popularity-contest
dpkg -l | grep popularity-contest
Code:apt-cache show popularity-contest dpkg -l | grep popularity-contest
It originates from Debian (though I don't know if it's installed by default), and I'd guess it's packaged for every other derivative (e.g., Mint).
There's also Landscape, which I'm sure Ubuntu/Canonical scrapes for data on those systems that use it.
I use Gentoo and actually review the src...If you use Ubuntu... Trust data to South Africa?
None of that is enabled by default.
Ubuntu spies on no one.
What you are seeing in relation to Ubuntu phoning home is related to:
- Time server updates.
- Software updates.
- Crash reporting.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticConnections
$ apt-cache rdepends popularity-contest
popularity-contest
Reverse Depends:
debian-goodies
ubuntu-standard
neurodebian-popularity-contest
ubuntu-standard
Probably default NTP servers & package repositories.Maybe. Certainly had a lot of flagged traffic to South Africa on my Pfsense/snort router when I used Ubuntu. The IP's belonged to Canonical when I checked what was getting blocked. I maintained the outbound blocks to SA. All the Linux stuff worked fine.....so I assume it was Ubuntu style telemetry........
I've always had a good experience with their AV but their supposed closeness to the Russian government is troubling.
"supposed" being the key word. These days I am more likely to believe the Russians than the Americans. Yea, I live in Canada and do not trust the USA to be honest. Seems they are on a witch hunt to me and now they have their pals in the UK spouting the same BS.
I don't use Kaspersky because I use free but I would have no problem using it otherwise.
Slow down there sunshine... There are plenty of contenders for the top spotNobody should trust either American corporations / government or Russian ones. Russia is THE most corrupted country on the planet. That includes both commercial and governmental levels. US corporations follow lead and as Snowden revealed, the US government is doing a lot of shady business aswell.
Russia is basically a big mob that happens to rule an entire country.
You have to be kidding, unless you mean countries like Iran, China, North Korea, and a few of the former USSR republics, plus of course, Venezuela. And how could I forget Cuba.Slow down there sunshine... There are plenty of contenders for the top spot
Exactly.You have to be kidding, unless you mean countries like Iran, China, North Korea, and a few of the former USSR republics, plus of course, Venezuela. And how could I forget Cuba.
Slow down there sunshine... There are plenty of contenders for the top spot
Have you ever been to Russia? Sure some banana countries may pass Russia as in total level of corruption but on global scale - you can't beat the ex soviets with Russia leading the pack.
No, you have.
In my experience, the corruption in India puts Russia or anyone else to shame. The corruption robs the entire country of their ability to live and even kills its own at will (Chennai floods a few years ago). Horrible, horrible place. And there's no 'money and power' with 'small lines crossed along the way' for these people, they're pure evil--the likes of which the west has never seen. Our hardened prisoners would flench in their presence as you can almost feel the evil aura around them. It's absolutely crazy, but the citizens do nothing about it, so that's their problem and thankfully not mine.
That just means you haven't studied russia too much. The russian mafia is legendary for their ruthlessness and did you forget Stalin executing millions of his own countrymen? Countless assassinations has been performed on Putins period, of which the murder/imprisonment of political opponents and critical reporters have broken the news threshold. There has been several nuclear disasters for example in russia. In one occasion at tseljabinsk, 150 metric tons of highly radioactive material exploded polluting many kilometers with lethal radiation levels and much larger area airborne with less than lethal dosages. People still continue to live there and were not evacuated. Sure the villagers have horrible tumors and disfigurement but hey, it's the way it is...
Having said that, I fully concur with the movie line: India is the rectum of the universe.
In what world do you live in do you think this video has any relevance to the topic?
You may as well have shown us a video of a man eating pears titled “NSA “expert” eats pears”
I was reading last night how that crazy North Korean Leader assassinated one of his generals via flame thrower and when his wife complained about his assassination she was poisoned. Another of the top brass were assassinated via anti aircraft gun for falling asleep at a parade.
Very concerning times, I think Kaspersky's OS is the least of our worries at this stage.
I don't see how you can not be worried about an OS that allegedly pipes your information directly to potential enemies of your nation and/or cybercriminals.
There are far slower and worse ways to get executed than AA...Wouldn't worry me as I'd never use it! I only use operating systems that respect me!
Dunno whether there'd be much fun in execution by AA gun though....