Re: Phoning home
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 10:16 +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
Think about:
apt
ntpdate
clamav-freshclam
dcc-client
icewasel
popularity-contest
and IIRC bind will check the root zone.
Except popularity contest, I'm pretty sure none of this are actually
"phone home" cases. ntpdate must contact servers *in order to do its
job*, likewise for apt. This is not true for the case we are talking
about.
Yes, I agree. But I read differently:
"You collect the data because I need the the job done", and two
cases:
- intrinsic to the connection
- technically not needed.
But for my privacy concerns, I find no real differences. For this
reason I would like that developer check if some data is unnecessary
collected.
I.e. if we find that debian.pool.ntp.org, clamav, ... will collect
to much unnecessary informations, I would like to be informed,
and whenether possible to have a choice to use alternate servers.
The normal "phone home" is normally a "unnecessary informations",
so also in this case, I would like to be informed, and
to have the possibility to disable such "feature",
In summary: I don't like strong policy (i.e. the MUST
in one proposed change), but I would like that the
usual behavior is stronger on privacy concerns, both
on classical "phone home", and in more hidden
"phone home" (when it is proved to be like a real
phoning home.
PS: the list:
- apt (mirrors could potentially collect data)
- ntpdate (it uses the domains under debian.pool.ntp.org,
so we could collect data)
- clamav-freshclam, dcc-client: non debian controlled server
- icewasel: it connects (I'm sure in the past) to a remote server
on startup (check version?, to display the initial page?)
- popcon: this is obvious, and I hope users will understand what
they are installing.
ciao
cate
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