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The "never phone home" UI should make it clear that it will still phone home to check for updates. But I'm sympathetic to Github here. Having users on unpatche
by lukasb 7y ago
The "never phone home" UI should make it clear that it will still phone home to check for updates.
But I'm sympathetic to Github here. Having users on unpatched software is a bigger risk to them than not having 100% perfect insulation from sending their IP address to Microsoft.
- vunie 7y ago>Having users on unpatched software is a bigger risk to them than not having 100% perfect insulation from sending their IP address to Microsoft. That's not a decision for Github to make. Let the user decide. Perhaps by even presenting them with a dialog on first run that informs them then asks them ti decide.
- Multicomp 7y agoI agree wholeheartedly. Somewhere out there (prog21 ?) is an article stating that the one in desperate need of electricity (the computing device) is subject to the one in a position to provide it (the user), and I agree with that sentiment. I'd even like an IETF-standard-like T-shirt that says 'The user's will MUST be obeyed as faithfully as possible unless prevented by unrecoverable circumstances' or something like that. Click-through EULAs and dialog boxes are another symptom of the 'elite-developer-itis' our industry can sometimes exude.
- sneak 7y agoUsers having unpatched software is no risk to GitHub. It's risk to those users.