Bug#761658: Please do not default to using Google nameservers

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

I think this may even require some broader discussion, perhaps on d-d,
about which position Debian has towards privacy.

This case here of silently defaulting to a big greedy company who is
well-known for being part of the US' world-wide surveillance program is
just the tip of an ice-berg.


Obviously, I don't say that every program that sends data over the
network should need to ask first, especially not when it's obvious that
it will do that (e.g. for a browser it's obvious that when you enter
some URL, it will send data).
But especially those cases where this is not obvious (e.g. several GNOME
(and possibly other) programs that send my contact's addresses to
gravatar, or when e.g. Firefox extensions like httpseverywhere would
default to yes in sending the collected certs to the EFF) this shouldn't
be the default and people should properly asked/informed before it
happens.

This is also especially the case when data is sent to specific companies
or organisations (e.g. gravatar) in contrast to a common system (like
the DNS when recursing via the root servers).


Cheers,
Chris.
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