On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 8:00 AM, kardan <kar...@riseup.net> wrote: > gnome-software depends on fwupd which triggers web requests containing > "client user-agent, IP address, timestamp, OS distribution name and OS > version to fwupd.org upon each firmware downloading process (or > checking for firmware updates manually by the user)" without the > knowledge of the user. The metadata is downloaded from a CDN hosted by amazon.
Honestly, that sounds like visiting any web site in a browser. Should we stop installing Firefox? Checking for updates using apt also reveals that information. > https://fosspost.org/analytics/privacy-security-concern-regarding-gnome-software Did you read the replies from the fwupd maintainer, Richard Hughes? I would actually argue that Debian GNOME should recommend fwupd like most other distros do. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha
