Magento: Phoning home to Big Brother/Varien?

It appears some have claimed there Magento installation has been making calls back to IP’s owned by Varien/Magento, The thread is initially a year old, and more recent discussions have claimed they haven’t found anything of such nature. I know X-Cart used to use a javascript blank 1×1 gif image to track installations of X-Cart but it was only on the backend/admin side, and not the front end. Has anyone else run into similar instances? Also this may not pertain to 3rd party modules installed as that may a whole other can of worms you could be opening up your store up to, most modules are free, but nothing is really free in this world. Here is the original thread: Magento Phone Home?

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2 Responses to “Magento: Phoning home to Big Brother/Varien?”

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October 20th, 2009 at 5:42 am
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Jonas Says:
January 4th, 2010 at 8:26 am
Perhaps the best way to find out for yourself is to use tcpdump (or ethereal) to check out what is happening.
On our server I see no calls outside our server for normal use, I don’t even see any connections when login into admin, so that either means that the messages are checked based on time – or by javascript or something that is not run at the server.

however the forum discussion about analytics is interesting to read … and to consider