Hello,
I just downloaded the VirtualBox Debian package from the VirtualBox
website, and I looked inside the archive (using ar -x) and I found that
it installs quite a few files, and it has some post/pre install/remove
scripts which I can't quite make sense of. So I'm not entirely sure if
I can trust Innotek (or whoever made VirtuelBox) to not put something in
the package that would report back to their servers (spyware kind of
thing), or exploit the fact that I have to install the package as root,
and sneakily set something up for DRM purposes. Am I being paranoid?
Or am I right not to trust the package? I wouldn't worry about it if I
got the package from the Debian project.
-Aidan
- VirtualBox package Aidan Gauland
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