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Microsoft INFILTRATES Raspberry Pi OS!

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Gardiner Bryant
Feb 7, 2021

With a new OS update earlier this week, Raspberry Pi OS silently added Microsoft’s VS Code repository as well as its GPG key to the system’s package sources. This is a very strange occurrence that has many in the Pi enthusiast and Linux community concerned about both the privacy and security implications of such an addition–not to mention the fact it was done without the consent or even the knowledge of end users.
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