Re: Disable connections to Internet without user's consent

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Cindy Sue Causey wrote: 
> What about popularity-contest? Regardless of whether it fits in here,
> am hoping it maybe triggers thoughts of other packages that quietly
> phone home.

popcon defaults to off; you have to opt-in.

> As fast as I typed that, I remembered something I experienced a number
> of years ago. Certain screensavers used to pull from websites without
> my initial knowledge. I don't know how I eventually tripped over the
> fact that they did, but it was a momentarily frightening discovery. It
> was one of those times that TRUST in Debian Developers' thorough
> testing of packages came consciously to mind.

There are screensaver modules that pull quotes from remote
sites. They aren't a default, though.

firefox-esr is a prime candidate, but only when it's running.

-dsr-