Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations

[Alan Pope]

On 13 August 2010 12:13, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Christ! Can't even Canonical now be trusted not to send "back to base"
> information about a system?!
>

To be fair that's an upstream package which is the same in vanilla
GNOME and of course in Debian. It's nothing Canonical have done.

> 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?
>

iptables?

Cheers,
Al.