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-
