boot chart hidden upload ?!

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Mon Oct 8 20:18:52 UTC 2007


Mario Vukelic wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 11:16 +0100, (=?utf-8?q?=60=60-=5F-=C2=B4=C2=B4?=)
> -- Fernando wrote:
> 
>> Does this mean, that this apps, tries to upload our private results to a
>> server without our knowledge?
> 
> Well, "without our knowledge" is a bit harsh, after all it's in
> plaintext in the start-stop-script. 

It's in plaintext but not "plain text" - it's not a comment, it's an
argument to wget, which the average user won't realize isn't
actually "getting").  

> But yeah, it would probably warrant 
> an entry in the package description.

It should be, and it should probably be in debconf, too.
-- 
derek





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