Bug #17545

Consider having Tails systems report their version to us

Added by intrigeri 2020-03-22 11:10:42 . Updated 2020-03-22 11:10:42 .

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Description

Before Feature #15281, as a side-effect of our upgrade design, once connected to Tor, a Tails system would send a HTTPS GET request over Tor to our website, on a URL that included the version of the running Tails. This request ended up in our website logs (without IP address). We’ve occasionally used this source of data to do metrics, for example about:

  • upgrade rate
  • which old versions were still alive in the wild

Since Feature #15281, we lost this source of information.

Do we want to recover the ability to do such metrics? If so, let’s make it a conscious decision rather than an unintended side-effect.
Was the data collection we previously had sufficiently innocuous to be acceptable? Or do we want Tails to hide more information from us? (Which one?)


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Related issues

Related to Tails - Feature #16535: Privacy-preserving way of counting Tails installations Confirmed 2019-03-06
Related to Tails - Feature #14531: Create a blueprint about the future of metrics Confirmed 2017-08-30

History

#1 Updated by intrigeri 2020-03-22 11:11:03

  • related to Feature #16535: Privacy-preserving way of counting Tails installations added

#2 Updated by intrigeri 2020-03-22 11:11:11

  • related to Feature #14531: Create a blueprint about the future of metrics added