[Popcon-developers] Drop atime and ctime for privacy reasons possible?

Bill Allombert Bill.Allombert at math.u-bordeaux1.fr
Sat Oct 27 22:45:35 UTC 2012


On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 09:55:22AM +0000, adrelanos wrote:
> Paul Wise:
> > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 6:37 PM, adrelanos wrote:
> > 
> >> for privacy reasons.
> > 
> > In addition, it would be great to see popcon.d.o switch to SSL to add privacy.

I would rather use gpg.

> Like said in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=480860 if
> it were an opt-in, the server would hopefully not get too much load?

I wonder at the ethical implication of this.

> > The popcon upload script could also use tor/torify to add more anonymity.
> > 
> 
> A Tor hidden service would be ideal. It's easy to set up, provides
> anonymity and end-to-end encryption.

What do you need on the server side to make it work ?
You can alway implement your own popcon client on top of
/usr/sbin/popularity-contest

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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