Really? if you care about security, you deny all outbound traffic anyway and phone home software does not work.... That which is not specifically allowed is denied. That is how we realized quartz does phone home.
Understandably most people don't like phone home features, but i do see that knowing something like the most common jvm could help developers make better software. With open source or free software it is very hard to count the insta ll base.i could Argue both sides of this. On Thursday, June 20, 2013, Radim Kolar <h...@filez.com> wrote: > >> OpsCenter collects anonymous usage data and reports it back to DataStax. For example, number of nodes, keyspaces, column families, etc. Stat reporting isn't required to run OpsCenter however. To turn this feature off, see the docs here (stat_reporter): > > You never informed user that installing your crap will get him spyed upon. Thats very different from Firefox which asks for permission before sending data back and presents both choices to user. > 1. You do not have documented what information and how often you are going to spy > 2. how you are processing this information, which is required by EU law. > 3. In your crap EULA you demand right to present any user of your spyware to public for PR purposes. > 4. You guys tried to add spyware into apache cassandra and got huge negative response on cassandra-dev. You will simply never learn lesson. > > I dont trust Datastax: > 1 .I am responsible for data security because we have sensitive data in database. Because you are spying by default, we can not trust that due to our admin mistake your spyware will not be left enabled. > 2. We can not trust you that configuring that particual option really turns spying off. There might be bug in code or option can change name > 3. We do not like to be spyed by software holding sensitive data > 4. Spying is not anonymous - you will get IP address of reporter - you will see what company is using your product and from keyspace/CF names you can easily guess for what it is beeing used. If you do not spy keyspace/CF names yet you can do it in future since you have no clear privacy "what we spy" policy. > > I improved cassandra nagios plugin to fit our needs and give red stop sign to sw made by datastax. >
