[Konversation-devel] [Bug 217889] New: Konversation spamming personal information by default without user consent

[Pascal Bakhuis]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217889

           Summary: Konversation spamming personal information by default
                    without user consent
           Product: konversation
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: openSUSE RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: konversation-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: pBakhuis at Gmail.com


Version:            (using KDE 4.3.4)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    openSUSE RPMs

Konversation by default is so 'polite' to to read out the system information
for your username. But it does not inform you of this I for one greatly value
my online privacy and can't say I'm very pleased with the way this works.

ALWAYS when accessing a users data and doing anything with it over a network
the user should be informed of this and be able to prevent this.

There should either be a dialog when it's started for the first time informing
you of exactly your default 'identity' settings are and that his info is dumped
into channel when you leave it... or should it fill in some random bogus
information.

Also, it would be nice to have identities available under config as that's
where I looked for such information before connecting to any server, luckily I
was informed by another person in the channel that I was spamming my name
around so it happened only in a single channel.

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