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On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:00:55 +0000, Luke-Jr <luke-jr@×××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Friday 22 October 2004 9:56 pm, Andrew Fant wrote: |
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> > I'm not sure that I would call that a cool benefit. It seems to come close |
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> > to an egregious violation of privacy. I know that there is no promise of |
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> > confidentiality in the use of the portage rsync servers, but to actively |
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> > and publicly start collecting data about who is using what seems to only |
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> > invite more paranoia. |
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> Except that it won't be able to reliably collect the "who" part, only the |
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> "what". Sure, you could log IPs, but many users IPs change more frequently |
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> than they sync. |
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Even the what won't be reliable, as it won't show all of us who use |
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emerge-webrsync due to firewall restrictions. |
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Mike |
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