On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 06:21:50PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I am against the idea of Pd 'phoning home' for the same reasons as Tim,
I am a strong advocate of privacy, and I think this can be done without any violation of privacy. There are a number of ways to do this:
- having it an opt-in
- make it overt (i.e. pops up a window to ask permission each time)
- make the code open-source (people can see exactly what it is doing)
- make the unique ID a resettable random number (i.e. stored in prefs)
If you have cookie support turned on in your browser, then you are being tracked. 99% of people allow cookies at least some of the time. Most of the time none of the above conditions apply to how websites use cookies.
Then, on top of this, I think it is very good to have working examples of how to do this while maintaining privacy. Right now, companies, governments, etc. implement such systems with few privacy protections because its easier and there aren't working examples of how to do it better.
Sounds like Debian's "popularity contest". Ok, I'm convinced.
and I think it would be too hard to get the code into all the different versions of Pd out there anyway.
It would be trivial to get the code into Pd-extended.
Cool!
Chris.
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