From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el? Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:23:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <56F42269.10400@gmail.com> <05663DCE-3E5B-41E2-8657-460B2D013B49@lunaryorn.com> <570280D9.6030706@gmail.com> <5703D7BA.4070507@gmail.com> <5704AEAF.8050205@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1459981453 8434 80.91.229.3 (6 Apr 2016 22:24:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 22:24:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit--Claudel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 07 00:24:02 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1anvrm-0000Tq-IQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2016 00:24:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45989 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anvrl-0007QB-RJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:24:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56559) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anvrR-0007NJ-9u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:23:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anvrQ-0002nd-Ek for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:23:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49885) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anvrO-0002mM-Vb; Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:23:39 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1anvrO-0001S7-EV; Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:23:38 -0400 In-reply-to: <5704AEAF.8050205@gmail.com> (message from =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9?= =?utf-8?Q?ment?= Pit--Claudel on Wed, 6 Apr 2016 07:37:35 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:202776 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Additionally, IceCat of course leaks the fact that you're using > LibreJS, which probably goes a long way towards identifying > IceCat. There is no help for that. We have to block the nonfree software. > I wonder if profiling the list of websites that SpyBlock is > blocking would give further information. Who knows? But, once again, we have to block these forms of surveillance. What is your purpose in mentioning these points? What constructive question do they relate to? > If that's not enough, differences in behaviour between successive > versions of LibreJs can probably help in pinpointing a precise > version. I doubt any surveillance companies want to go to so much trouble specifically about LibreJS. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.