From a technical aspect, finding out if the Detekt sends something back would not be hard to check - a network hub (not a switch), a couple of cables and a trusted system running something along the lines of Wireshark would be a great solution for this. --- A On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 7:39 AM, In Harms Way <11414150173@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thanks, good idea. > Since as John pointed out the search of the tool goes into the last > corners of your system, we would need to look at the code to see if it also > harvests and/or sends something. The idea to install "security tools" which > actually are spyware has been implemented already. If detekt is one of them > needs to be checked. > > IHW > > Aftermath wrote, On 24/11/2014 05:26: > > wouldnt be hard to find out.. just have a screen recorder running, then > download it twice then slow down > > then playback of the video you just recorded > >