On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 20:00 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > On 1/31/07, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 11:10 -0700, Tom Tromey wrote: > > > >>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > > Ralf> I don't have any reasons to trust this URL smolt sends it data too. > > > > > > In principle I think this site should be controlled by the fedora project. > > > > Why do you think are people disabling log-in prompts, > > forging/suppressing server id-strings, not using HINFO records in named > > etc. ? > > No idea what you're talking about, and I consider myself somewhat paranoid. Many servers/service return an id-string identifying the version of a particular piece of SW - If this string is correct it, it provides clear information to which vulnerabilities it is likely to be vulnerable. Therefore many server admins use faked id-strings or don't provide this kind of information. > > Not worth mentioning, jerks sneaking on connections, theft of the data > > base, connecting this data with data available from other sources and > > selling this data ... > > We're still talking about data which contains solely of hardware > information which is individually publicly available, It is not publicly available!! You don't know which hardware I am running nor how many machines I have, nor what I am using them for. Otherwise smolt would not exist! All you know is me using Fedora 6/i686 on a certain IP address. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
