From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: Changes committed gnus/lisp (ChangeLog gnus-msg.el gnus-sum.el)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 06:10:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3isvr9zci.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3k7g7ppo5.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> deskpot@myrealbox.com (Vasily Korytov) writes:
>
>> Will we switch to use gnus-version-expose-system t by default?
>
> Well, thinking this over a bit, it seems that the only reason for
> exposing the system type is to make it easier to see whether people
> are using Windows,
And also Mac, these days.
> so that we can adequately, er, help. So it's a kind of debugging
> tool.
Another useful purpose is doing statistics (which is also mentioned in
Usefor). I think "What's the percentage of Unix/Windows/Mac
Gnus-users?" would be a reasonable question to try to answer.
> I'm not quite sure that's important enough a reason to expose this
> information.
I think there's a valid security argument against exposing
`system-configuration'. On some systems it might include enough
information to maybe determine if you're vulnerable to some exploit.
But `system-type' is so generic that it doesn't reveal very much.
E.g. my Digital Unix box is listed as just "berkeley-unix" (I doubt that
would help an attacker much :-), and all the different ms-windows
versions are "windows-nt".
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2003-02-07 20:05 ` Jesper Harder
2003-02-07 20:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-08 3:43 ` Vasily Korytov
2003-02-08 5:13 ` Jesper Harder
2003-02-08 20:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-09 3:07 ` Vasily Korytov
2003-02-09 3:20 ` Vasily Korytov
2003-02-10 8:33 ` Vasily Korytov
2003-02-10 8:41 ` Russ Allbery
2003-02-10 9:10 ` Vasily Korytov
2003-02-11 1:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-11 5:10 ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2003-02-11 13:23 ` User-Agent string (was: Changes committed gnus/lisp (ChangeLog gnus-msg.el gnus-sum.el)) Reiner Steib
2003-02-12 10:19 ` User-Agent string Vasily Korytov
2003-02-22 20:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-24 21:12 ` Reiner Steib
2003-02-24 22:18 ` Vasily Korytov
2003-02-27 14:50 ` Reiner Steib
2003-02-27 19:33 ` Vasily Korytov
2003-02-28 19:26 ` Reiner Steib
2003-03-01 23:06 ` Frank Haun
2003-03-03 16:18 ` Reiner Steib
2003-02-25 10:26 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-11 7:23 ` Changes committed gnus/lisp (ChangeLog gnus-msg.el gnus-sum.el) Vasily Korytov
2003-02-22 20:28 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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