KDE phoning home
Hi,
Over the last few days my desktop has been attempting to connect to
77.235.60.43 port 443 (about 350 attempts a day) which have been dropped
at my firewall as the IP is included in AS60781 (Leaseweb) which has been
listed in a local blacklist as a source of spam.
A google search on this address would appear to show that this address is
crash-reports.kde.org although this cannot be confirmed with whois.
Investigating my logs would seem to show that the connection attempts seem
to be associated with drkonqi-sentry-postman.service - Submitting pending
crash events, although I am not aware of any crash events occurring on
this computer over the last few days.
There doesn't seem to be any way of disabling drkonqi-sentry-postman or
analysing what information drkonki is trying to send and could be a
security breach.
Attempting to remove drkonqi seems to want to remove multiple plasma
packages.
Any thoughts on how to disable drkonqi and I also wonder what other kde
processes are trying to call home that haven't been intercepted by my
firewall.
Rob Brewer
(Up-to-date Sid)
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