So i was installing a repack on my linux system, using bottles because of its flatpak sandbox.
As the install was wrapping, it asked the standard question about redirecting the websites, I (probably thinking nothing will happen) didn’t uncheck anything, and to my surprise, it opened the Firefox browser on my main system and launched the website: giving me quite the spook
doesn’t this mean that anything i install on bottles can somehow still ping home even if I disable networking from Flatseal?
am I being paranoid or is this a serious security flaw?
If you disable networking, nothing can “ping home”. It didn’t ping anything, it opened the default program on your computer for using the web and passed a website request to it. That’s standard behavior.
but can it do it without the user interacting with it?