[Popcon-developers] Bug#480860: popularity-contest should encrypt contents

[Sheridan Hutchinson]

Package: popularity-contest
Severity: wishlist

Sadly, due to concerns about traffic eavesdropping I've decided to 
remove popularity-contest from the machines that I administrate as 
personally I feel it leaks too much information about the make-up of a 
system (just my personal, paranoid viewpoint!)

If however in the future versions of popcon the contents could be 
encrypted prior sending (which will also compress everything) then I'll 
be happy to re-install this package in the first instance.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.21     Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                          1.14.18    package maintenance system for Deb

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii  cron                          3.0pl1-104 management of regular background p
ii  exim4                         4.69-2     meta-package to ease Exim MTA (v4)
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.69-2+b1  lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
pn  mime-construct                <none>     (no description available)