Your message dated Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:10:32 +0300
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and subject line popularity-contest: improve privacy by randomizing order of
entries in all-popcon-results.gz?
has caused the Debian Bug report #634474,
regarding popularity-contest: improve privacy by randomizing order of entries
in all-popcon-results.gz?
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.49
Severity: wishlist
http://popcon.debian.org/all-popcon-results.gz
lists all my locally created packages together:
...
Package: saturn 0 1 0 0
Package: osm2go 0 1 0 0
Package: jpl-asc2eph 0 1 0 0
Package: rtklib-build-deps 0 0 0 1
Package: x11vis 0 0 1 0
Package: remote-keyboard 0 1 0 0
Package: qubes-os-gui 0 1 0 0
Package: gpstk 0 1 0 0
Package: buscatcher 0 1 0 0
Package: antd-query 0 1 0 0
Package: novasc 0 1 0 0
Package: measure 0 1 0 0
Package: libperl-astro-simbad-client 0 1 0 0
Package: libmroastro 0 1 0 0
Package: jpl-ephemeris-de405 0 0 0 1
Package: python-xgoogle 0 0 0 1
Package: mroastro 0 1 0 0
Package: qubes-os-core 0 1 0 0
...
This means that if somebody knows that I have installed "saturn" and
"qubes-os-core" they can easily derive that I also have installed all
the packages that are listed between them.
Would it be possible to randomize the order of entries?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.15.8.11 Debian package management system
Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii cron 3.0pl1-116 process scheduling daemon
ii exim4 4.72-6+squeeze2 metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4)
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail 4.72-6+squeeze2 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
ii anacron 2.3-14 cron-like program that doesn't go
-- debconf information:
popularity-contest/submiturls:
* popularity-contest/participate: true
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Hi,
at least today
http://popcon.debian.org/all-popcon-results.gz
returns a sorted list:
...
Package: satanic-plymouth-theme 0 0 1 0
Package: satanic-sounds 0 0 0 8
Package: satanic-wallpapers 0 0 0 5
Package: satanic-wallpapers-wide 0 0 0 3
Package: satpredict 0 1 0 0
Package: sattrack 0 0 1 0
Package: sattrack-x11 0 3 0 0
Package: saturn 0 1 0 0
Package: saturn-keyring 0 0 0 5
Package: satutils 0 1 0 0
Package: sauce 2 4 0 0
Package: sauerbraten 73 316 119 0
Package: sauerbraten-data 18 380 114 3
Package: sauerbraten-dbg 1 5 2 0
...
It thus seems that the bug has been fixed. Thanks!
-Timo
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