On Tue 10 Jan 2012 22:50:53 CET, Richard wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 03:24:14PM +0100, Thomas Spura wrote: > >> Why is that a topic for fedora? I don't think, we should patch >> programs and remove the versions printing everywhere. You are free to >> discuss this with upstream and that's it (or do a foo-privacy fork of >> course ;)). > > the privacy issue is a topic for Fedora because Fedora desktop users > have a substantial disadvantage compared to users of more frequently > used desktops. Intercepting a Fedora version string will in most > regions of the world identify a particular user. > > A privacy fork will not help that - using a particular fork with some > dozens of users will make those users even easier trackable. > > Richard > > --- > Name and OpenPGP keys available from pgp key servers > Fonts are a bigger threat to privacy, see here: http://panopticlick.eff.org/ Privacy conscious users are able to install a user agent switching extension. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
