Eugene Kanter wrote: > Damien, > > I believe sending contacts out without informing the user is a severe > privacy violation. > > Comments, anyone?
Each contact you have is there because you use it sometimes. And when you use it, the server knows that and can potentially store it. So hiding the contacts does not reduce your privacy in fact. > Eugene. > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Damien Sandras <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Le dimanche 03 janvier 2010 à 23:23 -0500, Eugene Kanter a écrit : >> >> Debugging some connectivity problems I noticed that upon startup ekiga >> sends SUBSCRIBE requests for every entry in Contacts tab. For example: >> >> Request-Line: SUBSCRIBE sip:[email protected] SIP/2.0 >> >> and server replies with >> >> Status-Line: SIP/2.0 489 Event Not Supported >> >> Why would ekiga advertise one's contact list contents? >> >> >> It tries subscribing to various types of events : >> - presence changes >> - call notifications >> >> Not all events are supported by all servers, Ekiga just tries them all. >> >> -- >> _ Damien Sandras >> (o- >> //\ Ekiga Softphone : http://www.ekiga.org/ >> v_/_ Be IP : http://www.beip.be/ >> FOSDEM : http://www.fosdem.org/ >> SIP Phone : sip:[email protected] _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
