On 25.11.18 18:24, j443i8@goat.si wrote:
the mac 70:3a:cb:bd:fd:e3 . This is probably some Google device his device is connecting to because the mac range is registered to Google Inc. Now i can lookup in public wifi databases and in some cases i then know where the users lives.
You can also just ask them where they live. Whereby I want to say, not everybody is in the same paranoid mode.
I was thinking of contributing to the Board Status but i dont want to release any private data and wont contribute now. What is the usage of the world to know what mac address the people are using?
There is no usage. It just makes the script simpler that gathers the information.
Please fix this to:
No, you, please fix this. You are very welcome to contribute patches.
- Remove kernel log and replace it with "uname -r" to just know the
kernel version.
This makes no sense, nobody asked for the kernel version. We want to see kernel messages. You can however implement a heuristic to filter per- sonal information.
- Please make the contribution without the force of having to register
to git. Make a public account that have just access to the board-status.git and set this public account into the code itself.
You are free to set something like this up and redirect all pushes to your Gerrit account. *After* you filtered spam.
Then there can be for example a simple live linux iso that people can boot with LAN cable connected. No requirement of installation software, of setting things up or anything like that.
Yes, please implement that. Again patches are welcome. We don't lack ideas, we lack the time to set things up. So once you are done with that, feel free to ask what else you can do.
Nico