Patrick, regardless of the wording, if there is a legal issue then you are referring to something potentially illegal, an act which is violating a law (regardless of it's legal purpose). In my opinion this is a purely technical issue, in your opinion network access from an applicatoin should require an explicit authorization/action from the user. That is not a widely accepted policy, specially when applied to security enforcement.
In my understanding there is a general approach on Ubuntu to make the system as safer as possible by default. I believe this has been discussed already for the automatic updates, when you do a fresh install you are not asked if it should check for updates or not, it just does it and presents you the updates. Per your requirements, the anti-phishing feature on firefox would be disabled by default, optionally presenting an option to the user to enable it or not. I am not sure most users would have a clear understanding on the answer for such option. There is a general consensus that prompting users for options which they don't understand just makes things worse as they will just accept blindly. We are talking about a blacklist update connection, not about a feature which sends private/personal data to a 3rd party without user's authorization, that would be illegal, at least on my country. -- unauthorized connection to Google https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/500601 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
