Ryan Davis wrote:
> On Apr 27, 2007, at 13:57 , Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> 
>> Eric Hodel wrote:
>>> If you find tattle is reporting information you don't want public
>>> after you've published it, you should have checked out what it was
>>> doing first and not run tattle.
>>>
>>> (While the first release of tattle didn't have the report option, it
>>> was still simple enough to visit the tattle report page or inspect
>>> the source to discover what was being reported.)
>> If you didn't want a security hole in your system you should have read
>> all the code first.
>>
>> Sound a little silly?
> 
> Actually, no. That is part of the appeal of open source in the first  
> place, remember?

The appeal of open source is that you *can* look at the source, not that 
you *have to*.

> 
> Also... it is called TATTLE. If you're sensitive about your  
> information, maybe applying a bit of critical thinking towards the  
> name of the tool in the first place would be prudent.

I'm not the only one that felt this way, and the information has been 
removed from the site. So I think it's a moot point to labor this point 
anymore.

- Charlie
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