Hi, On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 08:26:32PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > Evan Dandrea [2011-06-15 12:17 +0100]: > > Instead of operating entirely in the background without user > > intervention, I am proposing that the installer include a checkbox > > with the label, "Send information about setup to help improve the > > experience." It will be present on the last page of the installer as > > well as the quit and crash dialogs. > > I feel a lot better about this than the previous proposal, for two > reasons: > > * We allow the paranoid folks to opt out, and have something to point > to if someone complains. > > * It seems to be much better compatible with current legal matters. > (But deferring to legal team for the definitive decision here) > > * It collects useful data, so instead of just knowing "we got worse", > we can actually tell why (traces/logs) and where (it might affect > particular platforms/graphics cards/etc.)
I agree as well. This seems like much more obvious benefit to the end-user (even if it remains a rather delayed benefit). > My preference is to ensure that it doesn't have personal data, just > data about the installer environment and the hardware (we need to > ensure that it doesn't have serial numbers, etc.). Yeah, and I'll second this too. dmidecode and lshw especially contain a lot of serial numbers (disks, bios, cpu, etc). -Kees -- Kees Cook Ubuntu Security Team -- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
