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Privacy Preserving DNS Telemetry in Debian PHP Packages (salsa.debian.org)
1 points by GrayShade 119 days ago
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This patch uses a DNS extension to report the running version and check for updates. The messages are encrypted in flight.

The feature is gated at build-time, and enabled in the packages.sury.org repo and in the ondrej PPA.