To be honest there was a stick up my butt one day. I went through dozens of linux distros in a week. A lot of them had shady shit, or at least very questionable things happening on the network at first boot.

If anyone wants to zap me $25 dollars in bitcoin. I will redo my research to make it up to date. Then write a 2,500 word minimum article with screenshots and security research proof of work to help with self verification of my presented evidence. This would be a Linux public services announcement for Nostr.

Other than that it is a lot of work that I am not motivated to do right now. So my suggestion would be if you are interested in independent investigation and research. Visit distrowatch.com. Start on the top 100 list and work your way down.

Shit, in the top 20 alone you will discover several shady fuckinings afoot.