Re: requirements and regulations concerning upgrade checks/statistics callback on program start

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Jonas,

thanks for your -- interesting and funny - email ;-) I am not so much
for political discussions, but just for clarification:

> It is bad that a system installed purely from Debian - with all security 
> updates carefully applied and all security announcements carefully 
> followed - can be insecure due to tools bypassing Debian and doing its 
> own update mechanisms.

That would **not** happen automatically. No updates are pulled
automatically. The user **must** install plugins by himself to "infect"
his computer, and **must** update to increase the infection.

The only thing that happens is an information to the user that updates
are available.

So I hope you have one less worry, right? In case you never ever install
any infectious disease^Wplugin, you are free from governmental spying
and all the evil Satan send us!

Enjoy, and thanks for you comments!

Norbert

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