I’ve noticed something odd with NordVPN I’m running on Pop!_OS. Every so often the data sent jumps up quite considerably, and I’m wondering what data is being sent and to whom. From this morning:
I run Pop on a brand new 8th gen NUC, and forgot to turn it off before going to sleep last night and the fans kept firing up despite it being on sleep. Not sure if something was running in the background but I checked this and 13GB had been sent over the 13 hours it was on.
Is something weird going on here with my OS or with NordVPN, would anyone here be concerned? I don’t know what data is being sent and why such a large quantity… I downloaded Wireshark this morning but need more time to make sense of it, not a techie
Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared ready on Thursday to rule that former presidents have some degree of immunity from criminal prosecution, a move that could further delay the criminal case against former President Donald J. Trump on charges that he plotted to subvert the 2020 election.
Such a ruling would most likely send the case back to the trial court, ordering it to draw distinctions between official and private conduct. It would amount to a major statement on the scope of presidential power.
Though there was seeming consensus among the justices that the case could eventually go forward based on Mr. Trump’s private actions, the additional proceedings could make it hard to conduct the trial before the 2024 election.
There were only glancing references to the timing of the trial and no particular sense of urgency among the more conservative justices at Thursday’s argument. Instead, several of them criticized what they suggested was a political prosecution brought under laws they said were ill suited to the case at hand.
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If the court effectively blocks a prompt trial, particularly after it acted quickly in March to restore Mr. Trump to the ballot in Colorado, it will surely ignite furious criticism from liberals and others who view the former president’s actions as an assault on democracy and the rule of law.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who understands himself to be the custodian of the court’s prestige and legitimacy, did not tip his hand very much, though he seemed deeply skeptical of the decision from a unanimous three-judge panel of an appeals court in Washington rejecting Mr. Trump’s immunity claim.
Do you torrent? There’s no real reason the OS would upload that much data, its most likely something you’ve installed or something you’re syncing, you can try a program called iotop, it will at least show you where the data is going.
Hi all, thank you for all the suggestions. The fact that as soon as I post this and download a couple of tools the traffic level get back to normal I’m finding rather suspicious, but I’ll try some of those things. I don’t torrent and don’t have any syncing services set up, so kinda bizarre.
Not sure if it quite explains the scale of the data transfer but I’ve noticed that this can happen if you use a local network drive like and SMB share or similar. If you have the drive (or similar) mounted, then it can be constantly calling it from “within” the VPN but it’s not really pushing a connection “externally” out of your home network but just out of the VPN to the home network.
