On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 03:24:14PM +0100, Thomas Spura wrote:
Why is that a topic for fedora? I don't think, we should patch
programs and remove the versions printing everywhere. You are free to
discuss this with upstream and that's it (or do a foo-privacy fork of
course ;)).
the privacy issue is a topic for Fedora because Fedora desktop users
have a substantial disadvantage compared to users of more frequently
used desktops. Intercepting a Fedora version string will in most
regions of the world identify a particular user.
A privacy fork will not help that - using a particular fork with some
dozens of users will make those users even easier trackable.
Richard
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