Metrics and your privacy

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 02:02:18PM +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> Probably the GUID is a bit of a red herring, since in the case there are 
> millions of boxes it will be a ton of work to maintain the database of 
> them and compare every log line against it, for limited hard 
> information.

Why?  Just running uuidgen -r once per install and saving it somewhere is
good enough.

>  Because boxes will typically download specific updated 
> RPMs just the once, you can get an idea of the number of active boxes 
> just by filtering on packages that have been updated for a while.

That's wrong assumption, many people use proxies to avoid downloading
updates for each box again and again.

	Jakub