kevlar Hodge-Podge wrote:
I just want to see if I understand the issue correctly.
From what it sounds like there would need to both be a server for all the
individual machines to connect to, and some sort of scripted client to
capture info on the machine and send it to the server. When asking about
older machines such as the RELENG_4 mail server mentioned, wouldn’t that
person have to go back and in stall this software on the machine? Also
if this project were to work, it would almost have to be placed as a
high priority install, if not almost mandatory. When and how often would
the client contact the server? Every reboot would seem like a good time,
but possibly more often. Would it be possible to modify a very thin
email client to work as the client, meaning the server would send an
email, and when received it would prompt you “would you like to send
uptime/user data now?” perhaps even being able to choose what types of
data to send. I think the average person would be more likely to send
more info if they knew exactly what was being sent.
The outrage over the behavior and potential of WGA is a pretty good
meter of the general population's opinion of software "calling home."
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