Spyware, smolt, yum
seth vidal
skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Wed Jan 31 18:57:02 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 12:54 -0600, chris at idlelion.net wrote:
> I read that the number of machines using Fedora is being counted from
> their use of getting updates with yum.
>
> FC6 sets this up by default, with no instruction or permission to me, nor
> any notice or question to me.
Do you know what it is counting? It's counting the network connection.
There's no other data communicated.
> Is it spyware, by your definition? (Where you = anyone.)
no. no more than firefox is for having connections be logged on the
remote server when someone uses it.
-sv
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