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I stopped using atop when I found it installs several hooks which automatically run code as root and deposit files around the filesystem, including a "power man

I stopped using atop when I found it installs several hooks which automatically run code as root and deposit files around the filesystem, including a "power management" hook.

lolinder 1y ago
Do you have any references that describe this behavior? That sounds like exactly the kind of thing that could conceal a backdoor of the sort this seems to be warning about.
- Hello71 1y ago
  https://github.com/Atoptool/atop/blob/77e658ea04f4901adf44c73cdd98bd4f0e664be0/atop-pm.sh https://github.com/Atoptool/atop/blob/77e658ea04f4901adf44c7... installed by default in most distributions, e.g. https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/amd64/atop/filelist https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/amd64/atop/filelist