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by Ice_cream_suit 2998 days ago
Your fman was the package that surreptitiously ran update daily as root.

I cannot imagine that any security conscious Linux user would willingly use it

* This was a consequence of it's Windows heritage.

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This was fixed one year ago, within two days of being reported. I was new to Linux at the time and didn't know better [1].

[1]: https://fman.io/blog/an-apology-to-linux-users/