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<blockquote data-quote="Sleepingwiththefish" data-source="post: 1078381"><p>True, but it is also true that most of those are actually spyware disguised as freeware, ...and most are closed source, you can't really check the code.</p><p></p><p>These days even drivers come with spyware (e.g drivers from nvidia, logitech...) even if you opt out of 'analytics' during installation, most of those simple ignore this and continuously try to connect to internet (even if auto-update=off), my firewall logs are always full of blocked requests, 1 hour and the log have thousands of entries.</p><p></p><p>This is not true on Linux, at least the most notorious distributions have strict rules about this. If one uses tcpdump to check connections on a Linux machine it will not see much than NTP/DNS requests, plus services and connections running with user consent.</p><p></p><p>I would be careful with some distributions that try to imitate MS Windows too much...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sleepingwiththefish, post: 1078381"] True, but it is also true that most of those are actually spyware disguised as freeware, ...and most are closed source, you can't really check the code. These days even drivers come with spyware (e.g drivers from nvidia, logitech...) even if you opt out of 'analytics' during installation, most of those simple ignore this and continuously try to connect to internet (even if auto-update=off), my firewall logs are always full of blocked requests, 1 hour and the log have thousands of entries. This is not true on Linux, at least the most notorious distributions have strict rules about this. If one uses tcpdump to check connections on a Linux machine it will not see much than NTP/DNS requests, plus services and connections running with user consent. I would be careful with some distributions that try to imitate MS Windows too much... [/QUOTE]
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