Test99Premium
join:2003-04-24
San Jose, CA
kudos:1 | reply to tommy13v
Re: [General] Trixbox phoning home controversy. How do you feel about it, Tommy?
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 tommy13vPremium
join:2002-02-15
Niskayuna NY
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| To be honest I could care less about the fact that they want to get some stats of the install base but what I do care about is that they are executing as root commands on the box and if there servers are compromised or someone working for them decides he is upset then they could in theory execute a command as root to cause a problem.
I see it as a security risk. |
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| said by tommy13v:To be honest I could care less about the fact that they want to get some stats of the install base the implementation was really bad.. it would actually download a script from fonality servers and execute it (possibly as root).
that script could do ANYTHING.. including sniffing your network to installing backdoors/trojans, ____ (fill in your worst case nightmare) |
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