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You are aware that VLC, LibreOffice and many other FOSS apps have an update checker?

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The problem is not the update check itself, but what the server in Moscow returns. That's the whole point and the reason of me mentioning it.

LeoWattenberg|3 months ago

There is no server in Moscow, and I don't think there ever was. Muse Group left their original office in Kaliningrad for Cyprus pretty much the second the war started, and at this point has no offices or employees left in Russia. The servers always have been bog-standard cloud things, so Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, aws via Netlify and such.

CamperBob2|3 months ago

Not good to hear they're based in Moscow, but that ship has presumably already sailed and sunk if you're running the auto-update code in an existing Audacity installation.

What other concerns besides national origin exist with this code? Nothing seems to qualify as a "back door," certainly.