service and user-agent disclosure - please consider privacy

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On Tue 10 Jan 2012 22:50:53 CET, Richard wrote:
> 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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Fonts are a bigger threat to privacy, see here:
 http://panopticlick.eff.org/

Privacy conscious users are able to install a user agent switching 
extension.