On 5/17/22, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Andrea Monaco wrote:
>>
>> I wonder all the ways a standard installation and configuration connects
>> to the Internet without the user's consent, and how to disable it.
>>
>> I can think of the automatic check for updates and the automatic
>> security updates. Any
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
On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 11:39:44PM -0400, 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.
It is optional, so you'd have to install it explicitly.
Cheers
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On 5/17/22, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Andrea Monaco wrote:
>>
>> I wonder all the ways a standard installation and configuration connects
>> to the Internet without the user's consent, and how to disable it.
>>
>> I can think of the automatic check for updates and the automatic
>> security updates. Any
Andrea Monaco wrote:
>
> I wonder all the ways a standard installation and configuration connects
> to the Internet without the user's consent, and how to disable it.
>
> I can think of the automatic check for updates and the automatic
> security updates. Any other? Is there a manual page that
Unless you enable unattended upgrades explicitly (
https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades) Debian wouldn't download them
automatically.
Some tools may send multicast requests (I think Avahi does:
https://wiki.debian.org/Avahi)
You can use `tcmpdump` to check all your Internet traffic, and then
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