Anonymize user and host name
Bug #192786 reported by
Fred
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apport (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Martin Pitt |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: apport
Sometimes my applications crashes (and people told me Linux was rock solid stable).
Then I get questioned whether I would like to send a bug report. Of course, I want to help, but now I won't send any bug reports with Apport.
Apport don't respect privacy of its user. It can send personally identifiable information.
I don't want it to send my username. It doesn't need to know my username.
I am business man, and I was watching a gay porno, and listening to Spice Girls, and now my Totem Movie Player crashed.
And it sends away who I am, my username, and my that I was watching a gay porno.
WTF?
With username information are you referring to your computer's user id, or that the bug report is submitted with your Launchpad credentials? If the later, I'm not sure how we could change that to improve privacy, as we want users to be subscribed to bug reports so we can ask them questions as how to reproduce the crash, for example.
If you mean the former, I don't remember seen it, so please point us to a bug report which shows it. If the latter, how do you think we could solve the issue pointed above?