Enabling Connectivity Checking in NetworkManager

[Mario Limonciello]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Ted Gould <ted at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 14:48 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 02:41:35 PM Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote:
> > > As for the actual change, it is limited to the
> > > /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf file; to which the following
> > > will be added:
> > >
> > > [connectivity]
> > > uri=http://start.ubuntu.com/connectivity-check.html
> > > response=Lorem ipsum
> > >
> > > See the manual page for NetworkManager.conf(5) for the details of what
> > > these settings do.
> > >
> > > Please let me know if you have questions or think there are good
> > > reasons not to enable this feature. If there is no response by the end
> > > of the week, I'd like to proceed with a enabling this in Quantal and
> > > making sure it gets well tested.
> >
> > I think that a significant fraction of Ubuntu's user base is
> (reasonably) very
> > sensitive about privacy issues.  While this is no worse the the NTP
> check that
> > already exists (that is controversial), I don't think it  should be
> enabled by
> > default.
>
> I think that for those who are concerned, this is trivial to disable.
> But, I think what happens for those who are, is that Ubuntu "does the
> right thing" by default.  If you're at a hotel or other location that
> captures for a login page, you won't get your mail and apt and ... all
> downloading bogus stuff.
>
>                 --Ted
>
> How exactly do you see this as a privacy issue?  It's no different than
manually visiting a website every 5 minutes.  No PC specific ID has to be
sent.

The exact same connectivity check already happens in the installer too.

-- 
Mario Limonciello
superm1 at gmail.com
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