Comment 6 for bug 1292425

More on Apport "bug".

Just reporting another bug now, Apport gave me the option of including logs. It said if you include logs they might contain personal data such as username and something-or-other.

This is brilliant. A most welcome and reassuring sign of progress.

The procedure could be improved by automatically stripping out personal data and replacing it with standard names.

E.g. username = user_x
        system = system_x
        all user-created directories given a unique name = e.g. dira, dir z1, dir az1, and so on.

Maybe there are other personal data that could be stripped out automatically too? Perhaps enough that it might be possible for Apport to reassure the user that all personal data has been stripped out?

I guess the same would have to be done with: filenames, user strings, device names...