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by mixmastamyk 614 days ago
New installs make lots of unrequested accesses… fwupmgr, unbound-anchor, ocsp, firefox, all generate telemetry.

Companies have tried buying floss software specifically to add spyware, such as audacity.

It’s not a big fraction of what proprietary OS does, but the threat grows steadily each year.