On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 09:15 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 02:33 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 08:20 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
Ask yourself: If you were an administration/government/military organisation, an enterprise's financial/development department, a bank, simply a shop archiving your customer data or other entity dealing with "secret"/"private" information, would you want details about your systems to be exposed to the public?
Consider secret services/competitors spying the net, consider man-in-the-middle attacks, consider intruders harvesting the database, ...
I would not - I would take any measure to prevent and obsure such transmission.
Thats fine. In that case you can simply instruct your users to not send such information and the users can simply just click 'next' on the menu.
Many folks around here would advise their management to classify Fedora as not trustworthy and to ban it :-o.
Is exactly the kind of argumentation why before-mentioned institutions chose to migrate away from Microsoft systems.
but that's not a legal issue. You said you had a legal concern with including smolt and this is not a legal issue at all.
-sv