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| 2022-05-25 |
Linuxfx exposes its small database of users |
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The Linuxfx project makes a number of questionable claims. This Linux-based system reportly runs Android applications along with its native GNU/Linux applications. The project's website also claims there are over one million Linuxfx users in the world with over 15,000 downloads per week. Unsurprisingly these claims are not true. One of Linuxfx's features is an on-line registration and activation process, similar to the one used by Windows. This registration process collects information, such as a license key, IP address, and e-mail address which it then uploads to a server. This information, until recently, was publicly exposed and one enterprising user pointed out the database of user information was available for anyone to read. The database lists about 20,000 enteries for users. "The fxkeys table contains the metadata for all registered Pro licenses for Linuxfx, consisting of the license key, email address and some other stuff (expiration, quantity of machines licensed, etc.). The machines table contains the metadata for all Linuxfx installations that has phoned home for the first time. It contains the IP address of the machine, some other metadata ripped off a IP geo-location service (set by the client), and the license key (if activated). There's only over 20,000 entries in this file, a far cry from the 1M number claimed by the company. With this information, anybody can correlate an activated installation along with its IP address with its owner's email address, which is not good." |
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