Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

Hi Richard,

> It doesn't look like software is downloaded from Google Servers in order
> to run rclone. However, I will contact the rclone author for
> clarification.

I've got an answer from the rclone maintainer. Major message:

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rclone is statically linked with all the libraries it needs and
doesn't download any code at runtime.
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The whole reply is appended.

Best regards, Michael.