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[Bret Busby]

On 31/03/2020, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 5:49 PM Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> Am Montag, den 30.03.2020, 17:17 +0200 schrieb Liam Proven:
>>> On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 at 17:13, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> i did not talk about repos (though if your system eats itself
>>>> during a release-to-releaase upgrade because some third-party
>>>> secretly changed our sources.list you will likely not be happy
>>>> either)
>>>>
>>>> i explicitly talked about using dpkg -i to install some downloaded
>>>> deb
>>>
>>> Yes, I know. So was I. I thought I was clear.
>>>
>>> What I am saying is that if you download a .DEB file of Google
>>> Chrome, or MS Teams, Or Skype for Linux, and you install it with
>>> `dpkg`, then the programs add their own repositories to your system
>>> list.
>>
>> ah, ok, i didnt get that context somehow ....
>>
>> well, as long as you are okay to give microsoft (or any other 3rd
>> party repo owner) full root access to your system, sure, why not ;)
>>
>> i personally prefer to not have microsoft, google or slack to have
>> full root access to my system and rather rely on the confinement
>> features snap or flatpak provide to prevent any apps from reading my
>> passwords out of ~/.config or other databases they do not necessarily
>> need to access ...
>
> Or Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, ...
>

Do you use that Chinese owned software, Opera?

Are you really willing to let the Chinese government into yor computer?

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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Australia - a country that is so poor, the plebs cannot buy toilet paper.
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