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

[Pascal Bakhuis]

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





--- Comment #2 from Pascal Bakhuis <pBakhuis Gmail com>  2009-12-08 23:30:16 ---
Thank you for the elaborate response,

I was informed the full text (slightly garbled)
~Pascal at xxxxx-52D8054D.provider.com * Pascal Bakhuis was available to the
person who pointed this out to me, so looking back it's not the quit message
but non the less the information was available to them.
(was far passed midnight when I created the ticket - so it's a miracle the rest
made sense)

"I think an argument can be made here that if you don't want applications to
make use of real name information you provided the system with, you shouldn't
have entered it." 
I don't mind my office suite knowing my name so that Insert field > Author
works. 
I do mind when I join some random chat room filled with people I know nothing
about suddenly having access to my name. It's behavior I haven't seen in any
other Internet related program do without displaying some form of dialog first.
This really should be on a per application base rather than assuming that if
the information is provided in one place it can be used in another without
consent. 

"2) Being truthful about one's real name is part of established IRC etiquette
(similar to, say, Usenet) -- some networks even have a "network operators may
kill clients using obvious real name forgeries at will" policy." 
As a webdeveloper myself I can also inform you that it's considered proper
etiquette for websites to handle userdata with great care and to avoid making
this available to the public, and if it is make that very clear. (Well that's
50% etiquette and 50% avoid getting sued)

"- Getting error dialogs early on certainly makes the first-run experience a
lot
less friendly."
I wasn't asking for an error dialog but an information dialog or some form that
at least informs you the system information has been used. - Popping up the
default "identities" window with the fields already filled in allowing
customization is reasonable?
It's a one time - one click, doesn't seem too much of an inconvenience
considering the privacy benefit.

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