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Interesting idea, although I'm left wondering what's in it for the operator of this service? There doesn't appear to be any "about us" or information about what

by haney 8y ago

Interesting idea, although I'm left wondering what's in it for the operator of this service? There doesn't appear to be any "about us" or information about what's happening with the data I pipe to this url.

DyslexicAtheist 8y ago
agree. I imagine people using this to send logfiles and alerts (potentially containing info about infrastructure topology of a site or patch level and names of hosts). That sounds like a dangerous idea when it's unclear who operates the site, and why.
- mrmattyboy 8y ago
  Hey - WRT what's in it for the maintainer.. I run this on some servers that run a bunch of other sites.. and this was just a tiny project that I created because I was running a bunch of stuff on some servers that only had access to the internet through a proxy. Some of the things I was trying to run took a long time (10+ hours). So I wanted to get an easy notification and found signing up for other services to be a pain (need card info etc, because they expect bulk delivery) WRT putting sensitive info through it... I completely agree, I wouldn't advise this - at the same time, I'd never advise sending any sensitive info over any email (without using GPG). The reason for suggesting custom content was, if I had several commands going that would send notifications, I wanted an easy way to identify which one completed (even just sending a number or simple word so I could idenity if). The idea of piping to it was simply an idea of how I could expand it and suite other people's use-cases. Hope this all makes sense.. so no mass data gathering etc, and, as I say, I wouldn't advise putting any sensitive info through it anyway :)
  - haney 8y ago
    Cool, sorry didn’t mean to come across as negative. I’m always appreciative when people share solutions to problems they’ve had. Thanks for clearing up some of my questions.
    - mrmattyboy 8y ago
      Haha, don't worry, I didn't take it as negative. Just wanted to fully answer it, so my reasoning came across :)

by haney 8y ago

DyslexicAtheist 8y ago

agree. I imagine people using this to send logfiles and alerts (potentially containing info about infrastructure topology of a site or patch level and names of hosts). That sounds like a dangerous idea when it's unclear who operates the site, and why.

mrmattyboy 8y ago
Hey - WRT what's in it for the maintainer.. I run this on some servers that run a bunch of other sites.. and this was just a tiny project that I created because I was running a bunch of stuff on some servers that only had access to the internet through a proxy. Some of the things I was trying to run took a long time (10+ hours). So I wanted to get an easy notification and found signing up for other services to be a pain (need card info etc, because they expect bulk delivery) WRT putting sensitive info through it... I completely agree, I wouldn't advise this - at the same time, I'd never advise sending any sensitive info over any email (without using GPG). The reason for suggesting custom content was, if I had several commands going that would send notifications, I wanted an easy way to identify which one completed (even just sending a number or simple word so I could idenity if). The idea of piping to it was simply an idea of how I could expand it and suite other people's use-cases. Hope this all makes sense.. so no mass data gathering etc, and, as I say, I wouldn't advise putting any sensitive info through it anyway :)
- haney 8y ago
  Cool, sorry didn’t mean to come across as negative. I’m always appreciative when people share solutions to problems they’ve had. Thanks for clearing up some of my questions.
  - mrmattyboy 8y ago
    Haha, don't worry, I didn't take it as negative. Just wanted to fully answer it, so my reasoning came across :)