[Cryptography] Music players that don't promote eavesdropping?

Ray Dillinger bear at sonic.net
Thu Jun 16 19:27:58 EDT 2016



On 06/15/2016 10:14 AM, The Doctor wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 08:43:52 -0700
> Ray Dillinger <bear at sonic.net> wrote:
> 
>> Just out of curiosity, is there any such thing as a desktop music player
>> (for Linux) these days, which can be configured to NOT use the Internet
>> at all?
> 
> Audacious doesn't unless you specifically install those plugins.
> 

I have discovered the issue.

Now switching OFF the "install-recommends" option which some
dweeb interpreted to mean "install every plugin you can."

And Wireshark is now happy with my Rhythmbox install; it
suddenly emits no packets.

				Bear




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