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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? My digital fingerprints with systemd all over the place Post 302990495 by 1in10 on Friday 27th of January 2017 06:15:28 AM
Old 01-27-2017
My digital fingerprints with systemd all over the place

Lucky me, there is this thread or corner, whats on my mind.
As I once complained about systemd, it is in control all over the place, then given an answer about telemetry pings, saying farewell to Debian an still amused how Debian goes into the BSD direction I recently discoverd two or more things about this agnostic approach. Sisyphos is the luckiest guy in ancient history in comparison to that.
The telemetry pings to be disabled in the firefox and it's about:config is a joke in a systemd-distro.
You will find in such a distro
Code:
/home/nameoftheuser/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/archived/saved-telemetry-pings

all the hash-sums feeding the number-crunchers of the secret-service. I am not saying Mozilla is the villain, but who needs all this nutrition for the number-crunchers?
In the same folder there you find
Code:
/storage/permanent/chrome/idb

So when I first complained about the direction of debian heading for Unix, by making a cron-job I discovered, that there is more in store.
Code:
/etc/crontab

contains already since 2014 the bsdmainutils. But no developer will ever tell you that.
On top of this, as a linux user you may run the bleachbit process deleting and wiping out everything, at a first glance.
But there a still those files mentioned above.
That made it easier as I thought to move over to BSD.
And reading just yesterday about a bug in systemd that is giving an attacker a good chance to conquer your system,
Root-Exploit (CVE-2016-10156) detected by Sebastian Krahmer working for SuSe, found on


Ein Jahr alte Root-Schwachstelle in Systemd aufgetaucht |
heise Security


Well, I am just glad to have left behind such a mean attitude.
 

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FIREFOX(1)                                                      Linux User's Manual                                                     FIREFOX(1)

NAME
firefox - a Web browser for X11 derived from the Mozilla browser SYNOPSIS
firefox [OPTIONS] [URL] DESCRIPTION
Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability. USAGE
firefox is a simple shell script that will set up the environment for the actual executable. OPTIONS
A summary of the options supported by firefox is included below. GTK options --gdk-debug=FLAGS Gdk debugging flags to set --gdk-no-debug=FLAGS Gdk debugging flags to unset --gtk-debug=FLAGS Gtk+ debugging flags to set --gtk-no-debug=FLAGS Gtk+ debugging flags to unset --gtk-module=MODULE Load an additional Gtk module X11 options --display=DISPLAY X display to use --sync Make X calls synchronous --no-xshm Don't use X shared memory extension --xim-preedit=STYLE --xim-status=STYLE --g-fatal-warnings Make all warnings fatal Firefox options -h, -help Show summary of options. -height value Set height of startup window to value. -width value Set width of startup window to value. -v, -version Print /usr/bin/firefox-bin version. -CreateProfile profile Create profile. -P profile Start with profile. -ProfileManager Start with profile manager. -UILocale lang-region Start with lang-region resources. -contentLocale lang-region Start with lang-region resources. -remote command Execute command in an already running Firefox process. For more info, see: http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html -no-remote Don't try to control an already running instance. -jsconsole Start with Javascript Console -chrome url Load the specified chrome. -new-window url Open URL in a new window if Firefox is already running. -new-tab url Open URL in a new tab if Firefox is already running. -preferences Open Firefox preferences menu. -safe-mode Disables extensions and themes for this session. FILES /usr/bin/firefox - shell script wrapping firefox /usr/lib/firefox/firefox - firefox executable VERSION
3.0 BUGS
To report a bug, please visit http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ SEE ALSO
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