Bug#745668: ovito: keeps the users under permanent surveillance

[Anton Gladky]

tags 745668 + fixed-upstream
thanks

Hi Alex,

thanks for noting us about this problem. I have discussed it with
upstream and they have fixed it in git [1], so will be available in
the next release, which comes soon.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/p/ovito/git/ci/00ff7c9e02c4436a37b033bbad14d4006e005a8c/

Regards

Anton


2014-04-23 23:51 GMT+02:00  <uzoorei at googlemail.com>:
> I'd like to point your attention to a nasty hidden feature of the ovito program.
> The problem is that the ovito keeps the users under permanent surveillance.
> In great details:
> * for each user, unique persistent identificator is created in the configuration file
> * the identificator will be sent to ovito.org each time the user starts the program
> * this behavior is hidden from the user
> * neither the users are informed about the tracking
> * nor there is an option to disable it
> * no information in README/doc/etc about who is collecting the data, how the data are used...
>
> The good news is that it is easy to fix (at least it seems to be :)
> The relevant part of the code is located in ModifyCommandPage.cpp, lines 375 - 412
>
> Please help the debian users to keep their privacy!