On Sunday 17 March 2002 4:27 am, Brian Heinrich wrote: > The one thing that seems constantly to come up in jukola's postings > has to do with why the /name/ of his computer is being transmitted > /via/ TalkBack. �On a couple of occasions, he also made mention of > user name.
But how can you tell a TalkBack report came from one computer and not a whole group of computers unless you have an identifying mark that refers to the computer that had the crash? Admittedly, it could be the name, the IP, or what have you. To me the name is the less intrusive of any I could think. But let me go back to my original point. There is no spyware here, nothing underhand going on. You opt in to the TalkBack program and by doing so you agree to have such information that the guys at mozilla think they need, forwarded on, including the name of your PC. If you don't want to provide this information, or you are going to be selective in which information you give, don't opt in to TalkBack. Moz will work fine without Talkback, but the developers will not get vital information to make Moz better if a great number of people did this. So, on balance, I trust them to be asking for that information, and only that information, that's needed. Again, if you don't trust them, don't opt in....... -- Graham
