>the concern arises both from who that repo belongs to (many haven't rebuilt that trust)
What's the concern? One of the largest Linux contributors is going to start pushing malware in their repos? If you don't trust MS, why would you be using Linux in the first place?
>that repo having general activity data
Literally the only thing you can determine from this activity is that someone at your IP address has an arm64 device running apt.
>install pings
Only if you install something from that repo, so that's a very limited set of software.
What's the concern? One of the largest Linux contributors is going to start pushing malware in their repos? If you don't trust MS, why would you be using Linux in the first place?
>that repo having general activity data
Literally the only thing you can determine from this activity is that someone at your IP address has an arm64 device running apt.
>install pings Only if you install something from that repo, so that's a very limited set of software.