[Fedora-legal-list] Making Infrastructure httpd logs public

[Tom Callaway]

On 04/17/2012 01:56 PM, Ian Weller wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 01:36:50PM -0400, Tom Callaway wrote:
>> On 04/17/2012 01:15 PM, Ian Weller wrote:
>>> As part of the statistics++ project [1] it is Infrastructure's plan to
>>> make data about visits to Fedora Project web servers public, in order to
>>> automate the information made available on the Statistics wiki page.
>>>
>>> The httpd logs currently contain personally-identifiable information:
>>> the IP address the request originated from and the user agent header.
>>>
>>> We think that at an absolute minimum we need to hash the IP address
>>> (with a seed, obviously) and leave the user agent header as is. But we
>>> wanted to make sure we got legal's opinion on this.
>>
>> Can you show me a hypothetical "before" and "after" example?
> 
> Assuming we treat the logs as described above:
> 
> Before example (private, on Fedora log servers):
> 
> 66.391.22.111 - - [15/Apr/2012:04:02:56 +0000] "GET /static/css/fedora960-lang.css HTTP/1.0" 200 233 "http://start.fedoraproject.org/index.html.en" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0"
> 
> After example (available to public via statistics++ project):
> 
> c9326fa15a1d8a773386ddcdc16132f8 - - [15/Apr/2012:04:02:56 +0000] "GET /static/css/fedora960-lang.css HTTP/1.0" 200 233 "http://start.fedoraproject.org/index.html.en" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0"
> 
> Requests from the same IP address would have the same hash so that we
> could run scripts that count unique visitors.

As long as we're not somehow embedding any geo-ip information in those
hashes, I think we're okay.

~tom

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