"The system detected a problem, do you want to report it?" dialog

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 11:41:36 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 at 11:28, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> Users don't understand what they are doing, by just clicking ok, so
>> it's a security risk.
>
>My understanding is that auto-reports are anonymised.

Then edit the Wiki!
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"Why is apport disabled by default?

Apport is not enabled by default in stable releases, even if it is
installed. The automatic crash interception component of apport is
disabled by default in stable releases for a number of reasons:

    Apport collects potentially sensitive data, such as core dumps,
    stack traces, and log files. They can contain passwords, credit
    card numbers, serial numbers, and other private material.

    This is mitigated by the fact that it presents you what will be
    sent to the bug tracker, and that all crash report bugs are private
    by default, limited to the Ubuntu bug triaging team. We can
    reasonably expect developers and technically savvy users, who run
    the development release, to be aware of this and judge whether it
    is appropriate to file a crash report. But we shouldn't assume that
    every Ubuntu user of stable releases is able to do so. In 12.04 and
    up this is transparently handled by whoopsie, see ErrorTracker.
    During the development release we already collect thousands of
    crash reports, much more than we can ever fix. Continuing to
    collect those for stable releases is not really useful, since The
    most important crashes have already been discovered in the
    development release.

        The less important ones are not suitable for getting fixed in
        stable releases (see
        https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates Asking users to
        send crash reports to us is insincere, since we can't possibly
        answer and deal with all of them. Data collection from apport
        takes a nontrivial amount of CPU and I/O resources, which slow
        down the computer and don't allow you to restart the crashed
        program for several seconds. 

Note apport does not trap SIGABRT signals. If you are getting such a
signal, then please see DebuggingProgramCrash." -
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport#Why_is_apport_disabled_by_default.3F

On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 19:49:33 -0400 (EDT), Robert Heller wrote:
>This is with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

It's a stable release ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases ). Colin
perhaps will correct the Wiki.