I'd like to give this one 10 thumbs down. IMHO a bad idea, a nasty little bad idea.. evil, spawn of Satan. If this were implemented the first job of a new update would be to rip it out and flush it down the nearest toilet.
I can only wait until we see M$ like activation implemented... oh the joy... It would be much better just to have the information present on either the Digium site or some other location. I see little point in wasting your valuable time doing something like this when there are so many outstanding issues and feature requests that could offer more. Andy *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 06/04/2004 at 22:31 Mark Spencer wrote: >I've been considering the nature of Asterisk, its security, the bug >tracker, and more... And i've come up with an interesting idea: A >"message of the version". The idea is that Asterisk has a compile time >32-bit unsigned int version which is incremented whenever some major new >bug is fixed. When Asterisk starts up (and periodically, maybe once per >day), it sends a packet with the version number to a server at Digium, >along with a message level (INFO,MINOR,MAJOR,CRITICAL) and the Digium >server replies (if it receives the packet, if not, it might get sent again >in a day) with any INFO, MINOR, MAJOR, or CRITICAL messages which are >associated with that version of the code. In this way, an asterisk >administrator could easily see if there were any major issues, critical >security updates, etc, that his system might need to be updated for. > >Now, of course, any time you put a "call home" feature in, there are >people who will be concerned about privacy. Clearly it will be able to be >disabled, but I want to run my idea about deployment by everyone here and >see if you guys had some ideas. The idea would be that *new* installs >("make samples") would have the feature turned on for MAJOR level by >default, and that any existing install (e.g. /etc/asterisk/sip.conf >exists, but not /etc/asterisk/motv.conf) would have the file created at >the next "make install" based upon prompting the installer. > >Any feedback on: > >a) The idea itself -- is it a good one or is it stupid? > >b) The way to make it deployed without sneaking a "call home" in on >anybody that doesn't want it? > >Thanks! > >Mark > >_______________________________________________ >Asterisk-Users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users