Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:35:05 -0300 From: "Marc G. Fournier" <freebsd@hub.org> To: Julian Stacey <jhs@berklix.org>, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDstats: May Statistics - 23 998 Hosts Reported In Message-ID: <4DF855049318358D1FDDD3C9@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <200806060656.m566u1VL077970@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <200806060656.m566u1VL077970@fire.js.berklix.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - --On Friday, June 06, 2008 08:56:01 +0200 Julian Stacey <jhs@berklix.org> wrote: >> FreeBSD. Any large installation will image drives or perform their >> own custom installation and may very well not want their competitors >> to know how many machines they are running. > > Some companies wont want their competitors, &/or suppliers/ > clients to even know What OS's they run, let alone how many. > > Some government departments too (whose `competitors' could include > foreign governments, terrorists, thieves, & civil liberties groups etc). Again, there is nothing on the site, or in the database, that links the host to any specific organization, or even IP ... month to month reporting is based on two generated 'keys' that are stored on the remote host, and passed to the reporting server, not the hostname/IP ... This is *very* anonymous, for exactly the reasons you state above ... - -- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkhL4AkACgkQ4QvfyHIvDvNTrQCePqoZ+v8VbAOsaBWoGsVFCDUy eCMAoN1ppPDHpX3lVzGS7UniJ44zMZsT =ovjT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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