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Re: How pathetic!!
« Reply #15 on: February 02, 2018, 03:31:13 pm »
OK I edited and only facts remained in post.
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Re: How pathetic!!
« Reply #16 on: February 02, 2018, 03:44:38 pm »
Thank you :)


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Re: How pathetic!!
« Reply #17 on: February 02, 2018, 03:59:59 pm »
Most software developers add "call home" functionality to their software, sending and receiving data. That's not necessarily bad. What would be bad is to send home private and user identifiable data, without user consent. There's a line nobody should cross.
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Re: How pathetic!!
« Reply #18 on: February 02, 2018, 04:07:17 pm »
Any sw that send data from user device without user knowing and accepting this it is bad.
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Re: How pathetic!!
« Reply #19 on: February 02, 2018, 04:45:07 pm »
I think this is the Update Check in the Dashboard which can be disabled ... Easy
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Re: How pathetic!!
« Reply #20 on: February 02, 2018, 09:27:17 pm »
Nope it is not that easy this will disable the widget update check on main screen only, and I already had that checked from along time ago.

I did some hack ( add comment to line ) to disable the check in:
/usr/local/sbin/pfSense-upgrade -> # pfsense_upgrade=$(realpath $(dirname $0)/../libexec/$(basename $0))
and
/usr/local/www/system_update_settings.php -> // exec("/usr/bin/fetch -q -o {$g['tmp_path']}/manifest \"{$g['update_manifest']}\"");

also changed the repo address and keys in each file from dir:
/usr/local/share/pfSense/keys/
/usr/local/share/pfSense/pkg/repos
...

edit:
better to disable forever the binary that generate the ID: https://www.reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comments/6gq84t/closed_source_for_netgate_unique_id_generator/
rm /usr/sbin/gnid

then to add a startup script that delete the uniqueid:
rm /var/db/uniqueid

after a reboot it is silence for the moment even if I navigate to update and package menus.

edit2:
bogons files are also downloaded from pfsense site and because are obsolete and dangerous you have to edit:
/etc/rc.update_bogons.sh
to point it directly to source:
Code: [Select]
v4url=${v4url:-"http://www.team-cymru.org/Services/Bogons/fullbogons-ipv4.txt"}
v6url=${v6url:-"http://www.team-cymru.org/Services/Bogons/fullbogons-ipv6.txt"}
...
« Last Edit: May 18, 2018, 09:37:43 pm by 3kj2w »
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Re: How pathetic!!
« Reply #21 on: May 18, 2018, 09:30:11 pm »
Darkness is expanding ? Anybody know the story behind this ?


It is not easy to hide the past:
https://github.com/doktornotor/pfsense-still-closedsource
https://github.com/rapi3/pfsense-is-closed-source
« Last Edit: June 19, 2018, 02:54:43 pm by 3kj2w »
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Re: How pathetic!!
« Reply #22 on: May 18, 2018, 09:44:10 pm »
Just follow the "publicly posted" link and you can read the story. GitHub is very transparent in such cases.
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Re: How pathetic!!
« Reply #23 on: May 18, 2018, 10:18:46 pm »
This is nothing new. Everything is open source, except when open source and forking hurts business. Then the trademark is enforced and DCMA is leveraged.  Same thing in 2014:

https://marc.info/?l=pfsense-dev&m=139961925220457&w=2

Let it go guys, nothing to see here...


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