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Re: Unsolicited internet access in default installs (was: New service: https://debuginfod.debian.net)



Quoting Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues (2021-02-27 15:24:52)
> Quoting Steinar H. Gunderson (2021-02-27 13:46:27)
> > On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 12:29:34PM +0000, Thaddeus H. Black wrote:
> > > I would prefer Kurt's option.  Network silence is important.  
> > > Network noise would probably be a bug.  A sysadmin should not be 
> > > made to take special precautions to avoid the inadvertent 
> > > disclosure of the user's presence on the network.
> > 
> > It's 2021; machines are not silent on the network. That ship sailed 
> > long ago.
> 
> I was about to write a rant, stating that it's unacceptable for any 
> requests to remote servers to be made by a Debian default installation 
> without my explicit consent. So I ran:
> 
> qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 2G -netdev user,id=u1 -device e1000,netdev=u1 -object filter-dump,id=f1,netdev=u1,file=install.pcap -cdrom debian-testing-amd64-DVD-1.iso -hdd disk.img

Neat!

Now added to https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues#Detection_tools

Thanks, Johannes.

 - Jonas

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