FWIW, the Tor Project's log sanitization code is here: https://gitweb.torproject.org/webstats.git/tree/src/sanitize.py and it publishes the results publicly.
It rounds per-day. -tom On 3 May 2017 at 07:31, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey Nathan, > > I'd like to try to enable some privacy-preserving tracking on the > Guardian Project F-Droid repo. Looks like logging was turned off August > 19, 2014. What do you think about turning on the Apache logging again, > but only keeping the logs for one day? > > For the F-Droid repo, there would be a cron'ed script that would take > just what was downloaded and what time. I'm tempted to also convert the > IP address to a country, and store that. > > Rounding off the time to the day seems like a nice balance of useful > info without giving away too much. That eliminates the rich time-of-day > metadata, e.g. night, morning, lunchtime, etc. But maybe rounding to > the week would be better since that would also eliminate info about the > weekly cycle (e.g. downloads on Friday evening are not likely to come > from an orthodox Muslim, or Saturday for an orthodox Jew; then there are > holidays, etc.). > > .hc > > -- > PGP fingerprint: EE66 20C7 136B 0D2C 456C 0A4D E9E2 8DEA 00AA 5556 > https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0xE9E28DEA00AA5556 > _______________________________________________ > List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev > To unsubscribe, email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev To unsubscribe, email: [email protected]
