[Nottingham] Ubuntu + Amazon

Jason Irwin jasonirwin73 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 12 09:04:55 UTC 2012


On 11/12/12 22:13, Martin wrote:
> It is a deliberately installed Trojan that reports your activities to
> unknown 3rd parties.
I wouldn't go that far.  It does what it says it does, and only speaks 
to known parties (Amazon via Canonical).  Surely that's more Ronseal 
than Trojan?

> However, bleeding out details of your every keyboard and mouse action
> is oh so wide open to abuse, or just simple embarrassment, or far far
> worse...
The possibility of data leak does concern me, which is one reason why I 
removed it.

-- 
Jason Irwin



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