Andres Petralli wrote: > Look, I compiled this FREE package for everyone to use, now the only > thing I do is tracking who used it. Do you think this is a privacy > violation?
Andres, I don't think it's a privacy violation, I KNOW it's a privacy violation. It wouldn't be if you disclosed it before install in a manner that no one would miss. But you didn't bother to tell us. That makes your contribution quite suspect. > I could ask money for it and not give the package to you > until you sign a contract and give me your full name, including your > birthday. Maybe you should have; then we would have known you wanted the information. > Is that a deal to you? Well, the only thing that is > interesting in that e-mail is the kind of hardware people are using, and > this gives me an idea what kind of system I will expect when I'm doing > more of those packages. Then why didn't you tell us in advance? > Your hostname, by the way, is public anyway as > everything is public on the web. And now tell me which information in > this e-mail is sensitive to your privacy?! That's good, Andres, first gather information directly from our computers without telling us, and then argue with us that it's okay. That's a great way to make us feel comfortable with you. Taking the admin email address alone, even if you'd done nothing else, is improper. I don't give out my addresses unless I want to. Plain and simple. Sorry, you made a mistake. Until and unless we get a believable heartfelt apology we're going to have trouble believing in your good intentions. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux and Cobalt/Sun/RaQ Consulting nobaloney.net P. O. Box 52672, Riverside, CA 92517 voice: (909) 778-9980 * fax: (702) 548-9484 _______________________________________________ cobalt-security mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-security
