[ubuntu-studio-devel] How wide spread is Linux spyware?

[Mike Holstein]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>
wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 13:47:17 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 11:13:23 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >>On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 15:14:20 -0700 (PDT), Len Ovens wrote:
> >>>it is possible to [snip] build with phonehome disabled
> >>
> >>Thank you Len,
> >>
> >>but how can it be disabled?
> >
> >--no-phone-home
> >
> >
> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2015-July/102012.html
>
> Writing a script that disables and enables phone home using sed and
> that is provided by an Ubuntu Studio package might be something to
> consider.
>
> $ grep ardour ~/.config/ardour4/config /etc/ardour4/config
> /home/rocketmouse/.config/ardour4/config:    <Option
> name="osx-pingback-url"
> value="http://community.ardour.org/pingback/osx/"/>
> /home/rocketmouse/.config/ardour4/config:
> <Option name="linux-pingback-url"
> value="http://community.ardour.org/pingback/linux/"/>
> /home/rocketmouse/.config/ardour4/config:
> <Option name="tutorial-manual-url"
> value="http://ardour.org/flossmanual"/>
> /home/rocketmouse/.config/ardour4/config:
> <Option name="reference-manual-url"
> value="http://manual.ardour.org/"/>
> /home/rocketmouse/.config/ardour4/config:
> <Option name="updates-url"
> value="http://ardour.org/whatsnew.html"/>
> /home/rocketmouse/.config/ardour4/config:
> <Option name="donate-url" value="http://ardour.org/donate"/>
> grep: /etc/ardour4/config: No such file or directory
>
> I prefer to build Ardour 4 myself with --no-phone-home.
>

if "--no-phone-home" somehow implied security, you'd be in business!


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