Best practices by Dustin Kirkland https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/en/man5/update-motd.5.html
- No mention of curl running as root - No mention of the exfiltration of private data done via User-Agent - No mention of the novel concept of advertising via motd - No mention of using motd-news as telemetry - No mention that motd-news is part of core Ubuntu "base-files" and cannot be removed Feel free to guide me to the correct info on your website or update your documentation. Additional discussions on Twitter https://twitter.com/lusis/status/880446088083329024 https://twitter.com/astarrb/status/880170781841514496 https://twitter.com/lelff/status/1210619413885575168 https://twitter.com/hessu/status/1269994718018056199 https://twitter.com/nikitonsky/status/1073714951104184320 https://twitter.com/wamdamdam/status/1044197012353298433 https://twitter.com/marcodavids/status/1245054456955314178 ... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1867424 Title: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1867424/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
