<div dir="ltr"><div>Am sorry I did not mean it the way it must have sounded and I have the greatest respect and liking for our kernel developers absolutely no issues there. Maybe am being paranoid but like Linux in it's original inception I want security to be the cornerstone so again my sincere apologies to any kernel devs I may have unintentionally offended was not at all the intention. Simply wanted to raise awareness that privacy is a issue with the recent distros. <br>
<br></div>Been a while since I compiled a kernel, I used to go to the mainline <a href="http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/">http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/</a> but your shell apt-get sure rocks, many thank's :-)<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Jamon Camisso <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA@public.gmane.org" target="_blank">jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 05/12/13 05:57 PM, Aruna Hewapathirane wrote:<br>
> Yes Randy you can disable but how can you be certain that the kernel does<br>
> not have a mod that specifically tracks and sends data back to who knows<br>
> where ? I feel a lot safer with the old kernels :-)<br>
<br>
</div>Two reasons:<br>
<br>
1a) Trust that Ubuntu kernel devs aren't jerks.<br>
<br>
1b) That the community of outside kernel devs & users would spot such a<br>
modification.<br>
<br>
2) Corollary to 1b - You can download the source code and build a binary<br>
yourself to verify on whatever terms you choose. Try it yourself:<br>
apt-get source $(uname -r)<br>
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