Hi, NoName wrote (22 Apr 2013 06:00:48 GMT) : > Only there is no conspiracy. Only plain stupidity.
Regardless of the actual wording of the emitted judgment, I suggest you check your facts, and make sure you know what you're talking of, before judging other people's action. Just a friendly advice. > Take Tails for example: once upon a time they used to default to > check.torproject.org. Only that somebody decided it would be cool to > have some statistics. Now it defaults to the tails homepage. For the record, this is an entirely incorrect description of the decision process we had. Facts: * the homepage was changed in Tails 0.16, released on January 11 this year * the "Tails report for August, 2012" has boot statistics => We were publishing boot statistics _months before_ the browser home page was changed... no magic involved: the data from which these stats are computed simply does *not* depend on the web browser homepage. I think I've guessed what may have confused you in the first place: the Tails report you're pointing to reads "this number is an approximation from the requests made to the security announcements feed". I'm sorry that "security announcement feed" is vague enough for you to mix it with the connection the web browser makes to the Tails news page. The language we use in our reports is aimed at end-users, and may not be as technically precise as what you'd like. As I'm sure you are interested in drawing conclusions from more precise technical information, I suggest you read the "3.4 Notification of security issues and new Tails release" section of our design document, that points to the actual code: https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/ Cheers, -- intrigeri | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk