> You have misunderstood the purpose of the --paranoid option. The Nis is part of the reportbug development team. Tell him he does not understand what one of the option of the code he writes and maintain is borderline insulting.
> purpose of this option is to enable users to mitigate data leaks by > checking the information being sent for publication. Hiding the > payload works contrary to this purpose and undermines the user’s > request. By hiding the msg payload in an encoded container you /block/ > users from verifying what information is being transmitted for > /publication/. no. the purpose is showing you what is going to be sent on the wire, but the extra "paranoid" people that want to have a higher level of control. > The status quo is dangerous as it ensures that only highly motivated > users will actually go though the decoding hoops. > > The current behavior is also ableist as it hinders anyone using a > screen reader & it also needlessly imposes a higher level of > competency on users to recognize the base64 text and convert it. if you want to see the body of the report, just use the "p"ager option on the menu. > Please reopen this ticket. no. your report is invalid and as such it will remain closed. Please refrain from opening other bugs for reportbug if your behaviour is going to confrontational. -- Sandro "morph" Tosi My website: http://sandrotosi.me/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi Twitter: https://twitter.com/sandrotosi
