Legal focuses on the software license terms, terms of usage, privacy policy, and what not. Every time that's updated, use of the software is frozen until review

Legal focuses on the software license terms, terms of usage, privacy policy, and what not. Every time that's updated, use of the software is frozen until reviewed again. Technical means, we monitor for every outbound connection attempt and DNS request and can trace it back fairly easily to a particular application. We've certainly caught software that was reporting back when it's stated otherwise in the privacy policy or website. Legal does feel better when there's an entity they can seek damages from in the event that a piece of software turned out to be malicious. They're less inclined to give free software the same benefit of the doubt.