On Sat, 2020-03-28 at 00:15 +0100, Conrad Kostecki wrote: > a longer time ago, there were some concerns about privacy reasons > discussed here. It took a long time, but there is now a new version > released with lot's of changes. Since all results are still by default > uploaded, It should be noted, that hw-probeuploads a 32-byte prefix of > salted SHA512 hash of MAC addresses and serial numbers to properly > identify unique computers and hard drives. Here is one example report of > one of my devices https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=6bc7d86b9c. FWICS, > sensetive informtion seems not to be present. I would like to gather > some opinion about here, if there are any objections about adding > hw-probe to Gentoo. >
If: 1. it doesn't do this automatically after installing (i.e. install an enabled cronjob or alike), and 2. users are made aware what it does (i.e. because it's obvious that the program's purpose is to upload, or they're warned in postinst), I don't see a problem with it. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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