Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations

[Gilles Gravier]

 Many applications do that... one way or another.

Such an example includes IDEs that have a "news of the day" web page
that opens up when you launch it. The web page is fetched from the
vendor/author's web site... and requests, source IPs, etc... are counted.

Gilles.

On 13/08/2010 12:35, David Gerard wrote:
> On 13 August 2010 04:57, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
>
>> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/08/10/0319243/Canonical-Begins-Tracking-Ubuntu-Installations?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2FslashdotLinux+%28Slashdot%3A+Linux%29
>
> Any word from Canonical on whether this is expressly opt-in, like
> PopCon? (Which I always enable.)
>
> What other phone-home functions are enabled by default? NTP sync to
> ntp.ubuntu.com and checking the repos for updates - anything else?
>
>
> - d.
>