popularity-contest spyware! :)

[Tony Arnold]

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 20:49 +0100, Lee Braiden wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 October 2005 20:31, Jason Straight wrote:
> > I was surprised to see this package while searching for POP daemons with
> > synaptic. While it doesn't really bother me personally I am a little
> > dismayed that such a package would be installed by default w/o users
> > knowing. This is borderline spyware as a standard install.

You can also run the popularity-contest command from a terminal window
and see exactly what information is collected and thus sent. Then only
enable it to run by default if you are happy with what you see!

Regards,
Tony.
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