content: Don't.bother with the mainstream Linux os.s like ubuntu as the nsa is already getting.its teeth into it.  [citation needed] The NSA will have a horrible time trying to sink its teeth into any open source project. If you're talking about the Amazon shit, that has nothing to do with the NSA. Information is sent to Canonical's servers and passed on to Amazon anonymously, without any identifying information being stored anywhere. Besides, they're getting rid of that stuff in the next major release. Also, you say "like Ubuntu" like there are other mainstream distros with anything that could potentially be called spyware.