On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 17:59 +0000, Martin Pitt wrote:
> 
> How should it? There isn't a single place which holds/knows all your
> passwords, secret projects, personal data, and other sensitive stuff,
> except maybe your brain.

Sure.  The keyring potentially has a wealth of them, yes.  Perhaps
apport can keep a list (that you supply to it).  And scrubbing some is
better than scrubbing none.

> Then such bug reports would loose everything

_Everything_?

> that a developer needs to
> actually look into the problem. We could basically just say "program foo
> has crashed".

So knowing the package versions, distro release version and having stack
traces, etc. is of absolutely no more value than me just saying "program
foo has crashed"?  I don't think I believe that.

As it is currently, I (and I'm sure anyone else who realizes as much as
I do about what they are sending in CrashDump attachments) just don't
send apport reports because of the leak rather than sending 90% of the
information doesn't contain sensitive information.

TBH, I think Canonical are falling short of full disclosure in not being
more clear to users that they are likely sending account information in
their apport reports.  Things that crash a lot like firefox and
evolution are rife with accounts and passwords.

b.

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should try to sanitize passwords from attachments
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107103
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