On Saturday 14 October 2006 08:26, Ric Moore wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 16:52 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > Surely this is easy enough to resolve? If Fedora publish the script that > > is used to harvest the IP and do whatever is required, surely it would be > > simple enough for anyone who needs to, to check that their privacy is > > preserved? After all, this is one of the main arguments in favour of Open > > Source Software. > > Do a google on "adclick" to see just what users concerns might be, abuse > happens. You're completely correct that an OpenSource model be used. Are you suggesting that this collection of statistics is akin to the adclick trojan? I don't think so. In the end we all have to make some decisions about trust status. Take mail messages, for instance. I have kmail set to not display html messages. I do have a folder, though, where I filter certain messages and which is set to allow html mail. This is because I trust the originators and I have listed them specifically in procmail. If I choose to run Fedora I have to be able to say that I trust the developers/maintainers. The irony of this is that they could have collected this information without us knowing anything about it (and for that matter they could do a lot worse than that). It's only because they have been honest and open about it that the argument/discussion exists at all. Anne
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