From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Calibre phones home without asking, and offers to update itself
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 12:41:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mpd9e8r.fsf_-_@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1YZP9d-00078O-2y@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> (Andreas Enge's message of "Sat, 21 Mar 2015 19:33:53 +0000")
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:
> commit e5ffe52cc7d0fa3242e3cd11f63c94deab91a3d5
> Author: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
> Date: Sat Mar 21 20:33:22 2015 +0100
>
> gnu: calibre: Update to 2.22.0.
>
> * gnu/packages/ebook.scm (calibre): Update to 2.22.0.
I haven't yet updated Calibre to 2.22.0, but version 2.21 told me about
the new version the last time I ran it, and offered to update it for me.
This raises a few problems:
* It's automatically phoning home on launch without my consent, which is
a breach of privacy.
* I don't know exactly what would happen if I let it attempt to update
itself, but since upstream Calibre includes non-free software (unrar),
it's probably offering to install non-free software for me.
We should disable this functionality in our Calibre package.
Mark
next parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-22 16:41 UTC|newest]
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2015-03-22 16:41 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2015-03-23 17:12 ` Calibre phones home without asking, and offers to update itself Ludovic Courtès
2015-03-24 19:44 ` Andreas Enge
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