Is Fedora Have Backdoor ?!

[مصعب الزعبي]

Even it just a Meta headers , the user approve must be taken. May at Fedora installation , and a way to stop must be available , too.

These issues must be in control by user .

Kind Regards
Mosaab

> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 17:44:59 -0500
> From: mattdm at fedoraproject.org
> To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: Is Fedora Have Backdoor ?!
> 
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:37:44AM +0200, مصعب الزعبي wrote:
> > My friend didn't have enabled auto-update.
> 
> There was an earlier discussion here. Even without updates
> automatically applied, metadata about potential updates is downloaded
> automatically.
> 
> 
> > He completely Surprised of un-human-authorized connection by fedora.
> 
> Preventing automatic system network interactions is not explicitly a
> project goal, and we don't have any strong guidelines on this. If you
> think it _should_ be, you wouldn't be alone — but on the other hand,
> there are strong user benefits in making sure the system is up to date,
> there's no waiting for metadata downloads, network connectivity is correct,
> and so on; so, you'll need to build a strong case that this concern is
> the most important.
> 
> > He disabled these actions by :
> > sudo echo  127.0.0.1 vm3.fedora.ibiblio.org proxy3.fedoraproject.org apps.fedoraproject.org 6-55-236-85.rev.customer-net.de >> /etc/hosts
> 
> Since these connections really are innocuous, this seems more likely to
> do harm than good, but of course your friend can do this if wanted.
> 
> 
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