Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations

[Fred A. Miller]

On 08/13/2010 05:07 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 13 August 2010 21:18, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
>   
>> > On 08/13/2010 06:35 AM, David Gerard wrote:
>>     
>>> >> 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
>>>       
>> > Not that I'm aware of, but maybe someone else here has a better idea
>> > what's going on.
>>     
> A screen for this sort of thing during installation would be good -
> like the one that asks you to join PopCon. Have a "phone home"  NTP
> and update checking pre-ticked, have PopCon and this thing not
> pre-ticked.
>
> I would have no qualms about ticking a daily ping, as it helps
> Canonical say "we have *this* many users, take us seriously." As long
> as it's *opt-in*.
>   

And, NEVER sends any other info, except that it's a Ubuntu system running
whatever version it is.

Fred