Yes, exactly. It all depends on what the phone home was intended to do, and what its actually doing. [Insert here futher comments, appropriately vituperative, about software that installs a service without asking permission.]
----- Original Message ----- From: Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:34:37 +0200 Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki version statistics > Hoi, I love FUD. The functionality we are discussing here will be open for inspection to anyone. The fact that some malicious home calling applications exist do not make all such applications suspect. A good example of phone home software is the "update manager" in Ubuntu that informs me when it is time to update my software. Phoning home is also normal in anti-virus software. Truly the organisations who employ "phone home" functionality have a reputation to keep up, when they abuse the trust people put in them, they will lose out. Thanks, GerardM On 30 July 2010 16:24, Steve VanSlyck <[email protected]> wrote: > "Dial home" or "phone home" is a euphimism from the movie ET. It refers to > software that "checks in" periodically with the software devolper. Many > people consider phone home implementations not to be features so much as > spyware. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: nevio carlos de alarcão <[email protected]> > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list < > [email protected]> > Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:22:25 -0300 > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki version statistics > > > Hi, could you explain what does this dial home feature mean? It would be > > more comprehensive toward those who are not software expert but do want > to > > contribute. Thank you. Regards, Nevio > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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