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    Mark Shuttleworth on No Compromises in Ubuntu Security

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    • mlnews
      mlnews last edited by

      eWeek reports on a talk from Canonical and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth who talks about the future of Ubuntu Linux 16.10 which is coming in six months, what it might include and talks about the importance of security and why Ubuntu will never compromise on security and will not include back doors.

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      • stacksofplates
        stacksofplates last edited by

        His majesty Richard Stallman already says Ubuntu is a spying tool.

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        • scottalanmiller
          scottalanmiller @stacksofplates last edited by

          @johnhooks said in Mark Shuttleworth on No Compromises in Ubuntu Security:

          His majesty Richard Stallman already says Ubuntu is a spying tool.

          Yeah, he says that stuff a lot. Does he have a reason for it?

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          • stacksofplates
            stacksofplates @scottalanmiller last edited by

            @scottalanmiller said in Mark Shuttleworth on No Compromises in Ubuntu Security:

            @johnhooks said in Mark Shuttleworth on No Compromises in Ubuntu Security:

            His majesty Richard Stallman already says Ubuntu is a spying tool.

            Yeah, he says that stuff a lot. Does he have a reason for it?

            They had the ads from Amazon, so his point is they are tracking what you do to give you ads. You can turn it off, but it was a big deal to him that it was automatically turned on.

            And also the non GNU completely free nonsense.

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            • scottalanmiller
              scottalanmiller last edited by

              There are ads? Where are those?

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              • stacksofplates
                stacksofplates @scottalanmiller last edited by

                @scottalanmiller said in Mark Shuttleworth on No Compromises in Ubuntu Security:

                There are ads? Where are those?

                They've turned them off by default now. In the settings there is a search section or something. You have to be using Unity for them to work, it's some kind of integration with Amazon.

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                • DustinB3403
                  DustinB3403 last edited by

                  I was actually just reading it (the articles are here and here)

                  Pretty much Ubuntu designed the system so if you were searching in the Dash menu, Amazon search results would come up, if someone bought something from Amazon, a portion of the proceeds would go directly to Ubuntu.

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                  • jospoortvliet
                    jospoortvliet Vendor last edited by

                    Hmmm, if he cares so much about security he should disable the Universe repository, it's full of security holes. Essentially, installing anything from there is an exercise in installing a backdoor.

                    Of course, there's not much choice, you want that software to be available. Though choice 😉

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