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bajabaronon Kite telemetry code in Sublime package SideBarEnhancements

It might be worth searching every release in the package_control_repo for this IP address...

https://github.com/wbond/package_control_channel/tree/master...

bajabaronon Kite telemetry code in Sublime package SideBarEnhancements

the sad thing is that this has been out for 9 months. If Kite was looking for stats to help inform their product development they already got all the data they need.

bajabaronon Kite telemetry code in Sublime package SideBarEnhancements

they're also obscuring who this log data is being sent to by just posting JSON to an ec2 IP address (52.52.168.91). The server tries hard to not let you know it belongs to Kite. You know someone is ashamed of what they're doing when they take efforts to mask who's doing it.

But you can see kite's own installer uses the same ip address for its telemetry: https://github.com/kiteco/kite-installer/blob/master/ext/tel...