On 30 July 2010 15:57, Steve VanSlyck <s.vanslyck(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
Yes, exactly. It all depends on what the phone home
was intended to do, and what its actually doing. [Insert here futher comments,
appropriately vituperative, about software that installs a service without asking
permission.]
Speaking as maintainer of several WordPress blogs and a few MediaWiki
installations, I'd like to state my wholehearted support for Jeroen's
work to make MediaWiki updating and extension managemhent as easy as
that of WordPress. While WordPress *needs* it more, given its
security-hole-of-the-week reputation, it's really becoming very good
indeed.
And there is nothing whatsoever wrong with "phone home" in appropriate
circumstances, particularly when there's good reason and the software
gives you appropriate control.
- d.