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On Sat, 2020-03-28 at 00:15 +0100, Conrad Kostecki wrote: |
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> a longer time ago, there were some concerns about privacy reasons |
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> discussed here. It took a long time, but there is now a new version |
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> released with lot's of changes. Since all results are still by default |
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> uploaded, It should be noted, that hw-probeuploads a 32-byte prefix of |
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> salted SHA512 hash of MAC addresses and serial numbers to properly |
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> identify unique computers and hard drives. Here is one example report of |
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> one of my devices https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=6bc7d86b9c. FWICS, |
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> sensetive informtion seems not to be present. I would like to gather |
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> some opinion about here, if there are any objections about adding |
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> hw-probe to Gentoo. |
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If: |
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1. it doesn't do this automatically after installing (i.e. install |
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an enabled cronjob or alike), and |
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2. users are made aware what it does (i.e. because it's obvious that |
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the program's purpose is to upload, or they're warned in postinst), |
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I don't see a problem with it. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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