If the Ubuntu team can't be convinced to take a policy standpoint against things like this, then the project suffers from a cancer that runs deep and can't be mitigated with blog posts and patches. Most users won't know they're being tracked like this and won't be the kind of user that looks up blog posts and patches against this sort of tracking. AKA most users fall for this.
If this sort of behaviour from Ubuntu continues, what I would suggest is that simply people start recommending other Linux distributions. Personally I'm a big Fedora fan: It has the same level of ease of use and features as Ubuntu and also a nice aesthetic and full SELinux security features across the board. The community is also dedicated. http://fedoraproject.org/ Seriously though, it's disturbing that even Linux geeks at Canonical can't see how awful those decisions are. Ubuntu is really getting full of itself these days. NK On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Jacob Appelbaum <ja...@appelbaum.net>wrote: > Rich Kulawiec: > > The short version is that Ubuntu is now pre-compromised. (Or if you > > prefer Stallman's phrasing, and I agree with him, it's spyware.) > > And given the appallingly tone-deaf nature of Shuttleworth/Canonical's > > responses, I very much doubt that this will be the end of it -- > > that is, I fully expect other privacy/security-adverse changes > > to be deliberately implemented in future releases/updates/patches. > > > > Sounds like someone should upload a package that fixes all of the > privacy problems, eh? > > All the best, > Jacob > > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >
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