Comment 3 for bug 1098978

On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:30:55 -0000, Martin Dluhos wrote:

> I would prefer not to have any hostname sent at all. Could this option
> be added as well?

On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:19:28 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
> It is not harmless! It helps networks keep track of people!
> We are working hard to defend anonymity on the Internet, and this
> feature defeats it totally.
>
> I suspect that major ISPs will keep track of the hostnames and mac addresses
> of machines taht connect to them through all the nets that they run.

Even though this reasoning seems a bit paranoid to me, you've convinced me that,
at least, WICD should be coherent, and if the user doesn't tick the box, it
shouldn't send any hostname.
The starting points are different, but it seems that the outcome is the same.

> Would you please change WICD so the default is to send no host name
> info? If people want to send a host name, they can enable it
> by clicking the box.

Hopefully that's now fixed in r869 [0], and will be present in WICD 1.7.3.

  [0]: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~wicd-devel/wicd/experimental/revision/869

I must still test that code, but I believe it's not buggy.

> Also, for a feature suggestion, how about adding a box to the general
> Preferences to run macchanger each time it brings up an interface?
> Currently the only way to do this to the wifi device is to put it in
> as a script for EACH interface separately.

Could you please open a separate bugreport for that?

Thank you,
David

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