[gentoo-dev] Re: rsync speed and space taken

[Mike]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:00:55 +0000, Luke-Jr <luke-jr@×××××××.org> wrote:


> On Friday 22 October 2004 9:56 pm, Andrew Fant wrote:
> > I'm not sure that I would call that a cool benefit.  It seems to come close
> > to an egregious violation of privacy.   I know that there is no promise of
> > confidentiality in the use of the portage rsync servers, but to actively
> > and publicly start collecting data about who is using what seems to only
> > invite more paranoia.
> Except that it won't be able to reliably collect the "who" part, only the
> "what". Sure, you could log IPs, but many users IPs change more frequently
> than they sync.

Even the what won't be reliable, as it won't show all of us who use
emerge-webrsync due to firewall restrictions.

Mike

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