Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Wed May 9 18:51:30 UTC 2012


On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 17:36:07 +0200,
   Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> * There are privacy issues with sending the users coredumps to some
>>   server on the internet
>
>As whole Fedora is built by the Fedora Project and Retrace Server is also run
>by Fedora Project this is non-issue.  There can be already inserted trojan
>uploading of any private info in the shipped binaries.

While this applies for some scenarios, it doesn't cover everything. Once 
the data is on those servers it is vulnerable to things (e.g. subpoenas,
mistakes in configuration) at that location that it otherwise wouldn't be.


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