Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations

[Basil Chupin]

On 13/08/2010 20:44, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 13 August 2010 11:35, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Any word from Canonical on whether this is expressly opt-in, like
>> PopCon? (Which I always enable.)
>>
>>      
> For those machines that have the package installed, it puts an
> /etc/cron.daily/send-census on the machine. So it looks "enabled by
> default" on those OEM installs that have it.
>
>    
>> What other phone-home functions are enabled by default? NTP sync to
>> ntp.ubuntu.com and checking the repos for updates - anything else?
>>
>>      
> Remote desktop phones back to the upstream developer and lets them
> know you have VNC port open which alarms me a bit.
>
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vino/+bug/608701
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>    
Christ! Can't even Canonical now be trusted not to send "back to base" 
information about a system?!

Is there some application which can be used by a home user system which 
will monitor outgoing traffic and log what is being sent out? Or even 
stop it going out in the first instance?

I know that these exist as a friend of mine connected one such piece of 
hardware/software to my system some years ago and told me what what 
going out and coming in - but few people can afford $20,000 for such a 
piece of 'machinery'.

BC

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