On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 15:11 -0400, Stéphane Graber wrote: > On 07/10/2012 03:06 PM, Ted Gould wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 14:48 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >> On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 02:41:35 PM Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: > >>> As for the actual change, it is limited to the > >>> /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf file; to which the following > >>> will be added: > >>> > >>> [connectivity] > >>> uri=http://start.ubuntu.com/connectivity-check.html > >>> response=Lorem ipsum > >>> > >>> See the manual page for NetworkManager.conf(5) for the details of what > >>> these settings do. > >>> > >>> Please let me know if you have questions or think there are good > >>> reasons not to enable this feature. If there is no response by the end > >>> of the week, I'd like to proceed with a enabling this in Quantal and > >>> making sure it gets well tested. > >> > >> I think that a significant fraction of Ubuntu's user base is (reasonably) > >> very > >> sensitive about privacy issues. While this is no worse the the NTP check > >> that > >> already exists (that is controversial), I don't think it should be > >> enabled by > >> default. > > > > I think that for those who are concerned, this is trivial to disable. > > But, I think what happens for those who are, is that Ubuntu "does the > > right thing" by default. If you're at a hotel or other location that > > captures for a login page, you won't get your mail and apt and ... all > > downloading bogus stuff. > > > > --Ted > > There are other ways to detect such cases without having the machine > connect to an external service. > > Someone suggested on IRC to implement a doesnt-exist.ubuntu.com which is > essentially a record that Canonical would guarantee never to exist in > the ubuntu.com. zone. > > If you can resolve or even access that host, then you are behind some > kind of captive portal/proxy. >
That only works if the portal/proxy spoofs DNS. Some don't do that. Seriously, there's a whole slew of software on the desktop that connects to the Internet regularly, I don't see how this is any different. It's easy to change for paranoid people, and enabling it would make Ubuntu so much better for a majority of users. Marc. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
