[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#962073: alsa-info is calling home without asking

[Paul Wise]

On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 17:26:27 +0200 Elimar Riesebieter wrote:

> What do you mean with "call home"?

Access the Internet without the consent of the person running it.

> There is indeed a new version available in [0] and [1]. It will be
> contributed witch the next release of alsa-utils. So what makes this
> "bug" serious?

The bug is a privacy violation.

https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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