Smolt: Fedora Hardware Profiler

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 1/31/07, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 19:01 +0100, David Nielsen wrote:
> > On ons, 2007-01-31 at 18:54 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >
> > > There is not way to convince me about such spy-ware. If you want to
> > > collect statics with an opt-in, you can achieve the same by launching a
> > > counter website.
> >
> > What a brilliant way to have a debate "nothing you can say can change my
> > mind".. that is the rhetoric of conspiracy theorists and other breeds of
> > true believers.
>
> Would you have preferred me to say: "Hell needs to freeze in before I'll
> install this piece of crap?"
>
> And it's not related to conspiracy - It's about privacy.
> Less politely: My HW profile is none of your business.
>
> BTW, my person definition of SPYWARE:
> A piece of software which silently collects otherwise unavailable data
> and transmits it without any technical need to operate a local machine.
>
> Ralf

Go on and define 'silent' now.

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