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Re: Calibre phones home without asking, and offers to update itself
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Calibre phones home without asking, and offers to update itself |
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Mon, 23 Mar 2015 18:12:23 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
> This raises a few problems:
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> * It's automatically phoning home on launch without my consent, which is
> a breach of privacy.
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> * I don't know exactly what would happen if I let it attempt to update
> itself, but since upstream Calibre includes non-free software (unrar),
> it's probably offering to install non-free software for me.
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> We should disable this functionality in our Calibre package.
Agreed, both should be disabled.
Presumably the other free distros have a patch for that?
Thanks,
Ludo’.