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Spyware, smolt, yum

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Chris Schumann

Wednesday, 31 January 2007 Wed, 31 Jan '07

12:54 p.m.

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. Is it spyware, by your definition? (Where you = anyone.)

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seth vidal

Wednesday, 31 January Wed, 31 Jan

12:57 p.m.

On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 12:54 -0600, chris(a)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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Arthur Pemberton

7:39 p.m.

On 1/31/07, chris(a)idlelion.net <chris(a)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. Is it spyware, by your definition? (Where you = anyone.)

You read wrong. Yum isn't doing anything. -- Fedora Core 6 and proud

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