Unwanted secret outbound connection
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Indicator Date and Time |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
indicator-datetime (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
ubuntu-geoip (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
unity-scope-video-remote (Ubuntu) |
Opinion
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
On my Precise box i found some unwanted connections.
I never told any process/programm to do that.
output of 'netstat -atulpen'
tcp 1 0 10.1.2.4:35438 46.137.162.6:80 CLOSE_WAIT 1000 16447 2322/python
tcp 1 0 10.1.2.4:51869 91.189.94.25:80 CLOSE_WAIT 1000 8846 2303/ubuntu-geoip-p
output of 'ps faux | grep 2322'
1000 2322 0.0 0.2 607636 17320 ? Sl 09:02 0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/
output of 'ps faux | grep 2303'
1000 2303 0.0 0.0 160488 5220 ? S 09:02 0:00 /usr/lib/
output of ' whois 46.137.162.6':
inetnum: 46.137.128.0 - 46.137.191.255
netname: AMAZON-EU-AWS
descr: Amazon Web Services, Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2, EU
output of ' whois 91.189.94.25':
inetnum: 91.189.88.0 - 91.189.95.255
netname: CANONICAL-CORE
descr: Canonical Ltd
Whatever you are doing: Stop doing this things with _my_ computer without asking me!
If i want phone-home-stuff, i can watch ET or use M$ W!nd*ws.
description: | updated |
affects: | ubuntu → unity-scope-video-remote (Ubuntu) |
tags: | added: bag-of-rants |
tags: | added: privacy |
One is the geoip server query to properly set your timezone, the other is the unity video lens querying the server.