[fab] Re: Firefox splash page tracker

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 12:40 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> >>> That's inappropriate and I will resist it.
> >> I'm not that interested in the what or the who - just the if.  That is, 
> >> are they using it?  That's it.
> > 
> > Then choose your terminology much more carefully. It sounds a lot like
> > you're interested in individual ips/users and when they interact with
> > the system.
> 
> I'm interested in some set of those.  Bill (in another message) talks 
> about tracking what packages people are using.  As part of what I'm 
> suggesting (just a web cookie or auto generated uuid on the system) 
> isn't that.  Doesn't show what someone is doing, or what they have used 
> it for.  Just that it exists.
> 

and it shows that they download tor, gpg and seahorse then a lot can be
inferred by that list.

HAVING the information means that others can subpoena it.

-sv