On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 03:24:52PM +0100, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > No idea why we are still asking whether popcon should be enabled or not > because > apparently it's 2021 and it's okay to tell others out there that I just > installed Debian.
This is a strawman, though. popcon contains a persistent identifier; a random HTTP request will not. Furthermore, your machine will send out and answer various ICMP traffic, mDNS stuff, multicast groups, CIFS name queries, etc. etc. etc. on whatever local network it's connecting to. It's completely fine to limit the amount of personal data we are divulging for no good reason, but machines don't live in network silence. debuginfod is a genuinely useful service, will leak much less information about what you've got installed than apt already does, and we should not just block its use based on such a (non-)goal. That being said, I would assume the logical thing to do is that gdb asks the first time, and then remembers your choice. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: https://www.sesse.net/
