Ubuntu decided to remove uptime from motd-news' data leak (exfiltration) via User-Agent: and move /etc/default/motd-news conffile to the motd- news-config package and switch from curl to wget.
Remove uptime from the motd-news user agent https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1886572 motd-news: use wget instead of curl https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1888572 -- I hope they will stop launched it as root as well see https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/5557 Split motd-news config into a new package https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1888575 To Be Continued ---> -- 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 [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
