Re: Phoning home
Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> writes:
> On su, 2008-02-24 at 17:05 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Ian's original wording deals with more edge cases, such as apt's
>> sources.list (which is not turned off by default, at least by
>> definitions of default that I'm comfortable with).
> That's true, and I think Ian's right. I don't, however, consider apt to
> be phoning home. That's a gut feeling, and it may be based just on the
> fact that apt has been around for so long.
I suppose that apt never updates itself unless you have something
configured to do so (although does synaptic default to running aptitude
update periodically?). But at least in theory Debian could track all
sorts of interesting information about users based on what packages they
download and when. We *don't*, of course, but companies who software does
similar things do so.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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