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Really, though - it would be amazing if someone made a MAGA-themed distro just to tell people it's the "Trump47Freedom Linux, free from liberal wokeness!" and then just collected massive telemetry and had a bunch of backdoors so you can just scam them all for...
Uh.....quick, tell me how does one make a Linux distro?
A Linux distro is essentially 2 things. A installer that sets everything up and a package repository to install software and updates from. The work is in selecting the software in the repository and making sure they all work with each other. But you can just take an existing distro (like debian) and make minor changes, like setting a Trump wallpaper, setting a secret backdoor password for ssh and adding the telemetry to the programs installed by default. For everything else refere back to the parent distro. Every time they make an update, just apply your changes on top of it and ship it as your own distro.
Should leave you with enough time to market to MAGAs and sell access to the backdoors and the telemetry data.
I've read this comment about 30 times, trying to talk myself out of paying some kids to re-package Mint for me. But with all the grifting, I could do this and charge $47 a pop and raaaake it in. And it's not a REAL scam, right?
No, I need bitcoin scammer money up front to bother with this. And I don't have that.
I feel like it depends on who you are and who you are selling to. Microsoft and Intel have no trouble selling backdoors to the NSA.
But in general selling access to somebody else's computer without their knowledge is considered illegal.