On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 11:54:55 -0500, Brent Busby wrote: >Robin Gareus <robin@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >[...] >> Heck, if you're worried about this, you can't even surf the web to >> begin with. A simple firefox http request sends a lot more private >> information about the user. See https://panopticlick.eff.org/ > >True Not really true. It's possible to make an averaged Firefox, Pale Moon etc. secure, however, the best bet would be to use https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en . As already pointed out, for some computer usage, of some people, in some regions of the planet, it's better to disable every phone home option. The uname request from Ardour + the full opened Windows size reported by a web browser + geolocation send by your weather applet and even the most trustworthy VPN service becomes useless. Firefox is a web browser, we expect that it's connected to the Internet. Ardour is a DAW, the distros package management informs about upgrades without asking what kernel a user has got installed. While I agree that Ardour's phone home isn't a serious issue for most of us, it's still grotesque to compare Ardour with Firefox. There's no good reason for Ardour to phone home by default. Distro independent upgrades could be announced by a news letter. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
