On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Marc A. Pelletier <m...@uberbox.org> wrote:
> On 10/10/2013 12:32 PM, Silke Meyer wrote: > > ok, I consulted Nosy, DaB. and Mette about this proposal and we will not > > make the home directories accessible to others. They can contain all > > sorts of private data, user names, e-mail addresses, ssh keys, who knows > > what else - maybe even gpg keys, so handing the complete package over is > > no option. I wouldn't want to "intrude" into the people's stuff. And > > we'd get in trouble with the law here, as the German data protection act > > is binding for us. > > I agree with this as well, for those very reasons. This is the reason > why Tool Labs insists that any "real" tool is run from multi-maintainer > project equivalents, and with clear licensing. > > I would not allow user's own home directories to be turned over to a > third party under any circumstances, this is why we want no code running > there we might want to salvage in the future. And, likewise, I'm pretty > sure the foundation wouldn't /want/ to be given custody over data that > may or may not be private from contributors who have not given explicit > leave to do so. > > To be clear, I was not suggesting to just dump all home directories on bittorrent ;-) public_html and cgi-bin should contain most code, and for small tools, could be checked quickly by hand for personal/secret data. Also, of course I prefer people moving their own tools! Just in the important-tool-will-die-with-toolserver scenario... Magnus
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