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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 |
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| > come close to an egregious violation of privacy. I know that there |
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| > is no promise of confidentiality in the use of the portage rsync |
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| > servers, but to actively and publicly start collecting data about |
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| > who is using what seems to only invite more paranoia. |
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| Except that it won't be able to reliably collect the "who" part, only |
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| the "what". Sure, you could log IPs, but many users IPs change more |
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| frequently than they sync. |
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Naah. You've got more than enough data to figure out who's doing what, |
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even if you don't look at IP at all. You know roughly when someone last |
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synced and you can track by what packages they previously had installed. |
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There's a looooot of information in that... |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, Sparc, Mips) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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