Re: Right to privacy & client info strings

[Derek Robert Price]

ATD Hubbard, John wrote:

> Failing to provide these sorts of options could conceivably result in 
> people trafficking lot of semi-standard, hacked versions of cvs that 
> don't encroach upon their privacy by default. Having seen public 
> reaction to some similar mechanism that other vendors built into some 
> of their products, my feeling is that this type of client behavior 
> must be treated in a very careful sort of way, to avoid losing users.

I'm also talking about some pretty simple information.  Client name & 
version perhaps.  Platform I can see as invasion of privacy.

As near as I know, all the web browsers send a client name and version 
as part of the HTTP protocol.  I haven't heard any objections to that.

Derek

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