<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Ted Gould <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ted@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ted@ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 14:48 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:<br>
> On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 02:41:35 PM Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> > As for the actual change, it is limited to the<br>
> > /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf file; to which the following<br>
> > will be added:<br>
> ><br>
> > [connectivity]<br>
> > uri=<a href="http://start.ubuntu.com/connectivity-check.html" target="_blank">http://start.ubuntu.com/connectivity-check.html</a><br>
> > response=Lorem ipsum<br>
> ><br>
> > See the manual page for NetworkManager.conf(5) for the details of what<br>
> > these settings do.<br>
> ><br>
> > Please let me know if you have questions or think there are good<br>
> > reasons not to enable this feature. If there is no response by the end<br>
> > of the week, I'd like to proceed with a enabling this in Quantal and<br>
> > making sure it gets well tested.<br>
><br>
> I think that a significant fraction of Ubuntu's user base is (reasonably) very<br>
> sensitive about privacy issues. While this is no worse the the NTP check that<br>
> already exists (that is controversial), I don't think it should be enabled by<br>
> default.<br>
<br>
</div>I think that for those who are concerned, this is trivial to disable.<br>
But, I think what happens for those who are, is that Ubuntu "does the<br>
right thing" by default. If you're at a hotel or other location that<br>
captures for a login page, you won't get your mail and apt and ... all<br>
downloading bogus stuff.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--Ted<br>
<br></font></span></blockquote><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>The exact same connectivity check already happens in the installer too.</div>
<div><br></div></div>-- <br>Mario Limonciello<br><a href="mailto:superm1@gmail.com" target="_blank">superm1@gmail.com</a><br>