Does Linux Spy on You?
Contents 3 Answers. Any Time You Execute Code Acquired from Someone That You Haven’t Fully Reviewed and It Runs on an Internet Connected System, There Is a...
3 Answers. Any time you execute code acquired from someone that you haven’t fully reviewed and it runs on an Internet connected system, there is a risk that the person who wrote or deployed that code could transmit data about your usage to another system. That’s true regardless of the OS. So yes it’s possible.
Does Linux spy on me?
Does Linux spy on you? No, Linux doesn’t spy on you, in fact, I would be more concerned about Windows spying on me, than Linux. Linux is open-source, which means, that its source code is freely accessable on the internet, and if you want to, you can read it yourself, to make sure that there really is no spyware in it.
Does Ubuntu spy on users?
Ubuntu, a widely used and influential GNU/Linux distribution, has installed surveillance code. When the user searches her own local files for a string using the Ubuntu desktop, Ubuntu sends that string to one of Canonical’s servers. (Canonical is the company that develops Ubuntu.)
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