From: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pit@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 15:57:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <570280D9.6030706@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1an5SI-0007tk-5H@fencepost.gnu.org>
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On 04/04/2016 03:26 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> I think url should do what IceCat does: send a user-agent string that
> is widely encountered on the net, to thwart identification of users.
Does it really do that? Where is it documented?
On my machine, it seems to consistently send "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0".
In any case, I don't think this point is relevant to the package.el part of this discussion. It's trivial for GNU ELPA and GNU MELPA to track their users: they can just serve arbitrary code that Emacs will blindly run. Thus, if you don't trust them enough to send them your version of Emacs, then you probably shouldn't be talking to them in the first place.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-04 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-24 17:22 Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el? Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-24 19:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-24 20:22 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2016-03-24 20:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-24 21:08 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2016-03-24 21:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-24 21:33 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-04-03 23:29 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-04 14:26 ` Richard Stallman
2016-04-04 14:57 ` Clément Pit--Claudel [this message]
2016-04-05 14:53 ` Richard Stallman
2016-04-05 15:20 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-04-05 15:38 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-04-05 23:56 ` Richard Stallman
2016-04-06 6:37 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-04-06 22:23 ` Richard Stallman
2016-04-07 8:17 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-04-07 21:15 ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-24 20:42 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-24 20:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-24 21:02 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-24 21:02 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-24 20:50 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-24 23:17 ` Steve Purcell
2016-04-10 5:10 ` Vibhav Pant
2016-04-10 19:01 ` Richard Stallman
2016-04-10 20:36 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-04-11 23:01 ` Richard Stallman
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