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Also from memory centos with the gui was making calls out to Verisign and Neustar every 30 mins, to weird websites with no content on them. I put these ips into my original block lists for endwall (before it was endwall). Strange repetitive calls out on ports 80, 443, 53 to companies like these mainly in Virginia, Maryland, and some on the west coast in California. A lot of malicious looking interactions with Akami technologies, constantly sending out packets, and probing my ports. I banned these as well, same with stuff from Amazon AWS. I can't remember it all, I had a large block list but still recieved indicators that my desktop was being monitored and survielled remotely. Probable keylogging, and screen capturing from framebuffer being encoded and sent out through port 53. It was pretty sophisticated looking. Fedora and Centos and RHEL are no go for me.

I'm suspicious about Debian as well, but it has a good reputation. However, Julian Assange made comments indicating that he thought that Debian was compromised as an OS, so maybe he knows something, or did some technical analysis on outgoing packets that gave him this impression. I put Debian on my mom's laptop because it has drivers for wifi that just work without fiddling. But I'm suspicious, I haven't had any bad experiences with it but Julian Assange's comments make me suspicious.

I prefer wired only interactions with the internet, and only behind 2 firewalls, 1 hardware + 1 endwall software, with blacklisting of wide ranges of ports and ips. 3 firewalls is better.