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<h1>systemd</h1>
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<p><a href="../articles/index.html">Back to catalog</a></p>
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<h1><font color=red>This article is not accurate and needs to be rewritten</font></h1>
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<h2>Spyware Level: <font color="yellow">Not Rated</font></h2>
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A lot of people asked me to write this article, so here is my attempt at writing it. Lots of people have lots of reasons to dislike systemd, and a lot of them wonder if
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there is also a privacy reason to dislike systemd. But I have not ever heard of any kind of telemetry, phoning home, or any other kind of spyware in the systemd software
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suite. systemd is free software so anyone can look at the code. And a lot of people have spent a lot of time cataloging why they don't like systemd. But if you read their
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reasons, none of them mention any kind of spyware hiding inside of systemd's codebase that can be actually proven. So, I can't write that systemd is spyware until someone
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can prove that it is spyware. If you have proof then feel free to email me and I will be happy to change this rating.
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This line of reasoning for giving systemd a "Not Spyware" rating has some flaws, and the most obvious one is that it isn't reasonable to audit the 1 million lines of systemd
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code for spyware. But this is still too generic of a criticism to make about it, because while in theory it is true, there needs to be real proof. Maybe the take-away is
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that while there are many reasons to not like systemd, it's really probably not violating anyone's privacy, just because of how much scrutiny it has gotten. Maybe it should be
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rated "Potential Spyware" or a lower, "Probably Not Spyware"? I think that the rating should be taken with a grain of salt because of this.
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I have personally never used systemd and I don't have the skills to actually audit it or run tests on it myself. So this isn't a very good place to look when looking for reasons
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to dislike systemd. At the very least, I can point to anti-systemd web pages that I am sure would be the first to report on systemd potentially violating the privacy of its users.
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But I don't want to call them "sources" or anything because what they talk about is beyond the scope of this website.
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<h2>Anti systemd web pages</h2>
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<a href="https://suckless.org/sucks/systemd/">systemd is the best example of Suck.</a>
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<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180725191931/https://suckless.org/sucks/systemd">[web.archive.org]</a>
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<a href="http://archive.li/BfS7l">[archive.is]</a><br>
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<a href="http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Arguments_against_systemd">Arguments against systemd</a>
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<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20180802045154/http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Arguments_against_systemd">[web.archive.org]</a>
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<a href="http://archive.li/bnmIo">[archive.is]</a><br>
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<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170724100245/https://muchweb.me/systemd-nsa-attempt/">Is systemd an NSA attempt?</a>
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<p><b>
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This article was last edited on 8/7/2018
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