Re: [Chandler-dev] Auto-update questions

Grant Baillie <grant-6zGkXsw2EZWGJGYlWa3Ukdi2O/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.osaf.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 10 Jun, 2008, at 18:20, Andi Vajda wrote:

>
> On Jun 10, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Grant Baillie <grant-6zGkXsw2EZWGJGYlWa3Ukdi2O/[email protected]>  
> wrote:
>
>> ...
>>
>>> - Can we include the repository UUID or hash of the UUID in the  
>>> ping, to even
>>> more clearly measure how many repositories are in use?  Does this  
>>> violate
>>> people's privacy?
>>
>> I've been led to believe that so long as we can't extract any  
>> personal information from such a ping, it's OK. But it would be  
>> good to get confirmation of this.
>
> If Chandler is run in non debug mode, ie with -O, uuids are crypto  
> random generated. In debug mode, uuids have recoverable NIC id and  
> timestamp in it. This tracing feature is intended for debugging only.

Ah, so we should be hashing the UUID.

--Grant


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