Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932156AbWEPRNA (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 13:13:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932160AbWEPRNA (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 13:13:00 -0400 Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de ([80.67.18.13]:61083 "EHLO smtprelay01.ispgateway.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932156AbWEPRM7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 13:12:59 -0400 From: Ingo Oeser To: "linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" Subject: Re: Wiretapping Linux? Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 19:09:46 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: "Marc Perkel" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <4469D296.8060908@perkel.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605161909.47110.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 793 Lines: 25 Hi, On Tuesday, 16. May 2006 17:05, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > It's hard to find Windows products that don't contain > such spyware. As Linux becomes more prevalent on the > desktop, you can expect to find such spyware there > too. Recent examples: - Update availability checkers (e.g. Adept). - Installation routines of a certain distribution calling all a predefined NTP server instead of pool.ntp.org on first start. The NTP variant is a clever idea with low traffic and tells you first usage and usage at all. Regards Ingo Oeser - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/