Any spywhere threat due to 3rd party plugins?

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Published on 2012-06-05T04:08:57Z Indexed on 2012/06/05 4:48 UTC
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I installed the plugin mentioned in the following link and after that, by Ubuntu 12.04 LTS behaves a little strange, particularly keyboard shortcuts are not working as expected.

http://www.webupd8.org/2012/03/recoll-lens-full-text-search-unity-lens.html

Actual my worry is not about keyboard shortcuts, but are there any spywhere threats by installing 3rd party applications (not through Ubuntu software centre) like that.

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