Le Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 07:18:54AM -0800, Rudi Cilibrasi a écrit : > Any DD may upload one new package p. This package, at first, may have > only one user. That one user may be easy to guess from a number of > other factors; e.g. perhaps it's the maintainer of p that has p > installed. In any case, providing the two-place function F(i,j) > allows us to fully reconstruct exactly which packages the one user of > p has installed, by simply running through all other packages and > sampling F along the row or column p. > Personally, I am a bigtime privacy advocate and have even gone on > youtube to promote privacy already. But in my opinion, the > statistical information that could be gained far outweighs the minor > cost of imperfect privacy here in the case of Debian package > statistical analysis. I have been studying Debian for six years and > I still feel like I have no idea about most packages. I guess it must > be that much more confusing for the majority of our users and I would > love to make some nice automatic graphs of how different packages > relate according to usage, bdeps, deps, recs, etc.
Hi Rudi, Hi all, maybe what will help us is that we are not so much interested in individual cornercases anyway. As a starter, we could focus on Field::Biology packages only. Accidental de-anonymisation would mean that one could guess who installed, say mummer, emboss, gnumed-client and bioperl at the same time for a given version number and architecture. I think that it is an acceptable risk, because the nature of this information is not very valuable. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
