@Simos:

Not sure about the Twitter storm you're referring too. The http request
being sent to motd.ubuntu.com is embedding information like system
uptime in the user-agent header. That appears to be used to determine
which information to send back in the http response. What's not clear,
is if it's being collected or not. Also, while unattended-upgrades for
-security may be a default, it may also be disabled, so I don't think
you can assume that. That said, I do think it's a good point that if
you're automatically receiving security upgrades, how much the motd news
that covers such things actually matters. Is your recommendation to
disable motd-news by default and make it opt-in?

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